Post Primaries Crisis: Olujimi Rules Out Reconciliation With Fayose Camp
Post Primaries Crisis: Olujimi Rules Out Reconciliation With Fayose Camp.
Senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District, Abiodun Olujimi has ruled out having any reconciliation with the former governor Ayo Fsyose on issues bordering on the party’s governorship primaries of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The PDP chieftain who is still nursing the pains of an alleged poor treatment the party meted out to her during the exercise disclosed that her political camp is considering various options.
Briefing newsmen after meeting members of another political family in Ekiti, the legislator lamented that no one in the party had approached her for talks weeks after she complained about improper treatment at the primaries.
She explained that the negative attitudes of the party officials in the state and at the centre had further angered her teeming supporters who now poised to go for broke on the matter.
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“I am not sure if a former governor is the only Senator produced by the PDP in Ekiti will suffer the same fate I did in the hands of our leaders. You can imagine nobody considers me as a stakeholder here in Ekiti before, during and after the primaries. This is why they didn’t bother to consult me on any issue.
Olujimi hinted that joint action would soon be taken by her camp and had constituted a committee under the chairmanship of former acting governor Tunji Odeyemi to consult widely on the matter.
The Senator representing the Ekiti South Senatorial District said his faction’s next line of political action would depend on the recommendations of the report to be submitted in the coming days which will be made public on Sunday.
“Well, we just came to hold a meeting with a few of our people whereby we could brief them about happenings in the party. You Know there were erroneous beliefs over the time on having been betrayed by the leadership of the group. So we needed to clear the air on that and we have cleared the air so that they got know what was really on the ground.
“So, we have briefed them and told them of the situation on the ground and they told us of what they think and their feelings. And we decided to set up a committee headed by the former acting governor, Tunji Odeyemi with a timeline of three days in which to report back to us on what the large house has agreed to do. And then we will have a larger meeting on Sunday where we would take a proper decision and what we will do.
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“There are options on the table. One that we would all go and kneel down and beg former governor Ayodele Fayose that we have sinned and we are returning back to his fold. Two, that we should pull out of the party. And we say that can’t be done in a hurry because tempers are high and we need them to calm down to be able to talk and hold a big meeting on Sunday when we would announce to the public where we are going”, she added.
“We are no longer children and we have been in this business for quite some time. If it is a former governor that is a sitting Senator, can they do what has happened to me? No. My gender has affected and beyond that, the fact that people take everybody for granted has also affected all of us. You can’t take People for granted”.
“It was a pure falsehood. Fayose didn’t call me. All he only did was post the pictures of Bisi Kolawole’s entry into Ado -Ekiti onto my phones. I saw them and I didn’t reply. It is when they speak to you that you know something is happening. I am not bothered because we have been in this business for a while”, she said.
