The Minister of Mines and Steel
Development and Ekiti State Governorship Aspirant of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Dr Kayode Fayemi, has denied reports that he stormed out of a
meeting of the party’s South West leaders with the Ekiti State governorship
aspirants in Abuja on Tuesday.
Recall that Fayemi on
Tuesday reportedly walked out of the meeting between the national leader of
APC, Asiwaju Tinubu and other aspirants and party leaders.
He was reported to have ignored
journalists who approached him on his way out of the venue.
Some of the party leaders in
attendance were: Pioneer chairman of the party, Bisi Akande; Former Ogun
Governor, Segun Osoba; Former Ekiti Governor, Niyi Adebayo and zonal vice
chairman of the APC in the south-west, Pius Akinyelure.
Reacting, the Minister in a
statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Yinka Oyebode on Wednesday, said he only left the venue after he took
permission from the leaders.
The statement read in part “The
Minister said that contrary to misleading media reports and social media posts
purporting that he walked out of the meeting, he only left the venue, like
other attendees, at the end of the meeting.
“There was no basis for the
minister to storm out of the meeting which was called by the leaders to proffer
way forward for the party, in the face of the rescheduled Ekiti governorship
primary.
“The Minister could not make the
second part of the meeting when it reconvened later in the evening, having earlier
taken permission from the leaders to attend another meeting.
“It is thus worrisome and highly
embarrassing reading reports of purported ‘walk out’ on our leaders when
nothing like that actually took place.
“We implore well-meaning members of the
society and members of our great party to disregard the misleading reports.”
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