… says he has no reason to betray Fayose like others did.
By Emmanuel Adeniran, Ado Ekiti.
An House of Representative Aspirant under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State for the 2019 General Elections has expressed his unalloyed and undivided loyalty to Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, the outgoing Governor of Ekiti State come 16th of October, 2018. Mr. Segun Olanipekun made this position known while reacting to question that he has betrayed and abandoned Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the outgoing Governor of Ekiti State.
Olanipekun dropped the information while responding to questions from Igbere TV News Reporter in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State Capital.
Honourable Segun Olanipekun is an House of Representatives Aspirant for the Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1 under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which comprises of Ado Ekiti and Irepodun / Ifelodun local government areas.
He used “the opportunity interacting with a cross – section of pressmen to correct the erroneous and misleading informations and rumours been peddled around about his relationship with the outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose. He also distanced himself from report going round that some of the party’s Aspirants for the House of Representatives, including himself, are up in arms against the Governor of the State, Ayodele Fayose, saying such report was far from being true”.
Olanipekun also denied leading a protest that resulted in destruction of the Party’s Secretariat in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday. Mr. Olanipekun who spoke with journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday said he had left Ado-Ekiti for Abuja at the early hours of Sunday before the alleged protest happened, adding he was shocked to read in the dailies that he was involved in the protest. The young Aspirant said he neither ordered anybody to engage in what he described as a barbaric act nor spoke for any Aspirant as claimed in the said report.
He condemned “the action of those who allegedly implicated him in the imbroglio and urged the general public to disregard the reported story because it was concocted and peddled by his political foes, just to dent his image and set him against the outgoing Governor and the party leaders in the State; emphasizing that those who saw him as a threat were the ones behind such campaign of calumny”.
“The report was written, sponsored and circulated by my political enemies because there has never been a time for me to either complain on the screening that was held last week or say something else on my Aspiration because I know I am still in the race”.
“What I am working towards is about how I will be victorious in the forthcoming primary election and I believe that I will coast home to victory”, he said.
He described himself as a committed party man who will never think of doing anything that could cause crisis within the party, not to talk of leading a destructive and needless protest.
He stressed that despite the fact that PDP was not declared winner of July 14th election in the State, the party was still very popular and with the State of things in Ekiti; PDP was still a party to beat.
The young politician implored his supporters never to engage in anything that will affect his chances in winning both the forthcoming primaries and general elections but continue to sensitize people so that the Aspiration will see the light of the day.
