Kayode Fayemi, minister of mines
and steel, says he took permission before leaving the meeting some leaders of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) had with the party’s Ekiti governorship
aspirants.
The APC leaders at the meeting
which held in Abuja on Tuesday, were Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the
APC; Bisi Akande, pioneer chairman of
the party; Segun Osoba, former Ogun state governor; Niyi Adebayo, former Ekiti
state governor; and Pius Akinyelure; zonal vice chairman of the APC in the
south-west.
Fayemi, one of the 33 aspirants
seeking the APC ticket in Ekiti, left when the meeting was on break and he did
not return when the party leaders reconvened for the second part.
He also refused to speak with
reporters who approached him.
Ayo Arise, a former senator and
an aspirant, did not also attend the second meeting.
In a statement by Yinka Oyebode,
his media aide, the minister said he did not return because he had another
meeting.
He said there was no basis for
him 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.
“It is thus worrisome reading
reports of purported ‘walk out’ on our leaders when nothing like that actually
took place,” he said.
Violence marred the primary
election of the party on Saturday.
In a statement he issued after
the the botched primary, Fayemi accused Babafemi Ojudu, a presidential aide,
and Bimbo Adaramola, a former member of the house of representatives, of
conspiring to thwart the exercise
The APC has fixed July 11 for a
fresh primary.
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