Fayose’s congratulation of Sherriff, loyalty to PDP ----Ekiti Speaker

(Nigeria) (Nigeria) The congratulation and expression of support for the new national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Alli Modu Sheriff by the Ekiti State governor, Bashorun Ayose Fayose, last week, was simply an act of loyalty to the party and its decision, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly,  Pastor Kola Oluwawole, has said.

Oluwawole said “partisanship apart, whatever the party has decided to do should be supported by any loyalist of the party. In the first and second republics, party decisions were supreme. No individual member was bigger than the party of which he or she was a member. That is how constitutional democracy should operate.”

According to a statement by his Special Assistant (Media), Stephen Gbadamosi, on Monday, in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, Oluwawole said the current divergent outbursts over the emergence of Sheriff as the party’s national chairman was a healthy development that would soon be settled within the party, maintaining that it showed that the PDP was a party that allowed for all voices to be heard.

“The Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, is a man that hates muffling of opposition’s voices, whether intra or inter party. He wants everybody to have his or her voice heard. He expressed support for the emergence of Alli Modu Sheriff as PDP national chairman based on his belief that the party’s decision is supreme.

“He is the main voice of the opposition in Nigeria today. He wants every voice to be heard. Partisanship apart, whatever the party has decided to do should be supported by any loyalist of the party. In the first and second republics, party decisions were supreme. That is how constitutional democracy should operate.

“Fayose does not believe in one man running the show. Nigerians should be patient to discover that the wobbling and fumbling of the All Progressives Party, APC, at the moment will show that the PDP is the loved most capable party in the country.

“Being a leader of the PDP himself, Fayose will not shy away from all altruistic efforts to reposition the party and set it on the part of progress. The rumour that some governors and former governors foisted Sheriff on the party is unfounded. Let them face their crumbling homes and allow the PDP to put its house in order the way it deems good,” he said.

The Speaker reiterated the support of the state House of Assembly for the governor, noting that “he has acquitted himself well. No amount of opposition’s antics will divide the people of Ekiti in their course to salvage the ruins the APC has the state a couple of months ago.”