Former Senate spokesperson and the National Chairman of the South West Agenda for 2023, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, has attacked Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi for sacking a party member who supported SWAGA.
His action was a reaction to the sack of the APC Caretaker Chairman of Ado Ekiti Ward 8, Clement Afolabi, on trumped up allegation of fraternising with SWAGA, a group which had been canvassing support for the presidential bid of APC National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu.
In a statement by his Media Manager, Mr. Gboyega Adeoye, said the move by the governor will decimate APC, adding that the party leaders need to call him to order.
According to him, the governor’s actions, and utterances “smirk of quick, deliberate steps aimed at rescuing victory from the mouth of APC’s nascent national electoral fortunes.”
“We condemn the lingering undemocratic approach of Fayemi to issues in recent times and insist on a call to order. We enjoin our party men and women across the country to feel free to identify with SWAGA.
“SWAGA is APC, and APC is SWAGA. There is no way a member can commit anti-party offences for favouring the presidential choice of a party man,” Adeyeye said.
He described the political happenings in Ekiti under Fayemi’s watch as “a theatre of the absurd by an evil intending vicious leader with a mission to smash the eggs, kill the hen and put the entire poultry on fire”, Adeyeye said “SWAGA is not unaware of the underground plots to frustrate the rising political profile of Asiwaju Tinubu in the Southwest and indeed Nigeria, as the undisputable choice to bring stability into our fragile democracy and lift the nation economically.”
Meanwhile, the APC Director of Media and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Party Matters, Sam Oluwalana said, “They were not supposed to bring the governor into the matter because it was a ward level issue, which the governor was not involved in. Fayemi is a democrat. He has done nothing to warrant the attack.
“He has not done anything to show he was trying to decimate the party or anti-party as being alleged.
“Whatever is happening at that ward has nothing to do with the governor at all. Those who are alleging should be concerned with having peace in the party at that level. Our quest should be peace and not divisive tendencies.”