A former Senator, Dino Melaye, has called on the national
leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to caution ex-governor Ayo Fayose of
Ekiti State against de-marketing its presidential contenders for the 2023
general elections, describing him as “a presidential gambler”.
He was reacting to the comments by Fayose against former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Senate President, Bukola Saraki, over the
collection of the presidential nomination forms.
Melaye said this in a statement titled, ‘The Presidency is
not Ponmo and Amala’, on Friday.
According to him, Fayose’s comment is a strategy to
allegedly shore up the chances of his political godfather in the All Progressives
Congress.
He said, “Inebriated by several wraps of Amala in Abuja,
former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, in his characteristic
exuberance, directed indecent and indecorous attacks at two serious contenders
for the presidential ticket of the PDP, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar and His
Excellency Bukola Saraki.
“Incidentally, the mauling of Amala gained more publicity
over the collection of the presidential nomination form, in a pretentious
exhibition of dining with the masses. This frugal populism has since been
deflated by allegations of charges for the ferreting of billions of Naira from
public coffers in Ekiti State. Is Amala and Abula so expensive?
“The issue before Nigerians now is not who can eat more, but
who can produce food. That is why the attempt to tar the outstanding
achievements of Atiku Abubakar as former Vice President and Bukola Saraki as
former Senate President by Fayose would be discounted as the belching perfidy
of a presidential gambler.
“It is clear from the verbal missiles deployed by Fayose
that he was simply de-marketing frontline aspirants in PDP as a
counter-intuitive strategy to shore up the chances of his political godfather
in APC.
“It is amazing that
Fayose who could not manage and retain a PDP state now aspires to lead a
behemoth structure like Nigeria. Today, Ekiti is stripped of all vestiges of
PDP; no PDP Senator, no PDP House of Representatives member, no House of
Assembly member, no Local Government Chairman, and not even a Councillor. He
left Ekiti State worse than he met it. How could he fail in the state and
expect promotion to the national?
“The contest for the ticket of PDP and the Presidency of
Nigeria is a serious engagement. Those who aspire to the position must elevate
themselves above pedestrian conduct and address real issues, rather than
dwelling on inconsequential inanities.
“The national leadership of our great party should call
Fayose to order, by curtailing his unproductive verbiage against serious
contenders. Having failed to upgrade from local political space to the national
stage, Fayose may indeed be assisted to undertake a week-long orientation
session on the ethics and codes of peer relations on a presidential canvass.
“Nigeria is in dire straits at the moment. It is beyond the
call of jesters in the corridors of elevated governance.”
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