The former Chairman of the Ekiti PDP Caretaker Committee, Hon. Dare Adeleke, has described former Governor Ayo Fayose’s interview on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ with Seun Okinbaloye as “a dismal and disgraceful outing.”
In an interview with our reporters, Adeleke likened Fayose’s performance to Shakespeare’s famous line:
“He was Evasive and rambled so much that he sounded like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Adeleke continued:
“Anyone who watched that interview would wonder why Fayose continues to demean himself and expose himself to ridicule just to moralise his contemptible romance with the APC, while still claiming to be a member of the PDP. Is Ayo Fayose so broke? The most ridiculous moment was his insistence that Governor Abiodun Oyebanji has done excellently well in Ekiti. I hope he replays that interview and notes how the thoroughly professional Seun made him look like a village clown when he reminded him that his praise of Oyebanji contradicts the reality on ground.”
According to Adeleke, the “facts on ground” referred to by Seun Okinbaloye are the glaring failures of the Oyebanji administration in all areas of governance.
“The people are groaning and have rejected him, but thanks to the APC’s total disregard for citizens’ welfare, they still want to retain Oyebanji through a shady consensus,” he said.
Turning his attention to Fayose’s constant attacks on the PDP, Adeleke said:
“Fayose has lost all relevance in Ekiti politics. Everyone knows he cannot even produce a councillor in Afao.”
Adeleke added that Fayose would have done himself a great favour by not appearing on the programme at all:
“He was put through a paper shredder like an old, discarded newspaper and properly humiliated. His tirade against the PDP was so discordant that he sounded like the beat of a drunk drummer. It got so bad, Seun had to rein him in at a point.”
“Fayose keeps saying the PDP is sick, he doesn’t attend party functions, blah blah blah, anything to justify his treachery against the party whose membership card he still clings to.”
Adeleke further described Fayose as “a bitter man, full of bile and envy.”
“He complained that positions in Ekiti PDP were being given to ‘small boys’ while he, the almighty masquerade, was being sidelined. The world can now see where his bitterness stems from. If I may ask, who was Fayose before he was handed the PDP governorship ticket? Was he a big boy? The answer is no. He was a small, irrelevant man who couldn’t even fund his own campaign. Imagine such an ingrate now calling others ‘small boys’. If he’s such a big man, why is he now acting as a ‘boy boy’ to Oyebanji and an errand boy to Tinubu and Wike, competing with his former boy, Lere Olayinka on who’s the better ‘Attack Dog’?” Adeleke queried.
He continued:
“On that interview Fayose was so cornered that he began to display sadism, posturing that the APC will snatch more governors from the PDP even if it means Nigeria becomes a one-party state. He conveniently forgot that he once tried to hijack the PDP himself. Such a disgraceful outing! We are not perturbed though, the election is Nigerians Vs APC”.
Adeleke
Adeleke concluded that Fayose’s disdain for the PDP is rooted in “his desperate search for stomach infrastructure, a term he himself invented and understands like second skin.”
“I can assure Fayose of one thing – Abiodun Oyebanji will be disgraced, come 2026 Governorship poll.”
Turning to PDP governors who have recently defected, Adeleke did not mince words:
“Those governors are being hunted by scandals. Most of them are crooks, fraudsters, not politicians. They are afraid of being probed, pure and simple. Why would a second-term governor decamp? That’s a question every Nigerian should ask. We’re glad they’ve gone, together with their collaborators and fellow travellers in crime. The PDP will finally be free of traitors, turncoats, 419s, criminals and looters, and will rise stronger to the dismay of people like Fayose.”
