EKITI CRISIS : Fayose , Olubolade trade blames

Former Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose and Police Affairs Minister, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade (rtd)Thursday traded blames over the crisis rocking the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).... Fayose came to the Abuja national secretariat of the PDP with a petition, alleging that the Makanjuoala Ogundipe led state Exco had beencompromised by Olubolade through monetary inducements.In the petition he submitted to the national chairman of PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Fayose stated that advice by President GoodluckJonathan to the effect that the party should explore the possibility of picking a consensus candidate was being capitalised upon by

Ogundipe to impose Olubolade as a consensus candidate of the PDP.

According to him, Olubolade provided logistics and funding for the Ogundipe Exco to set up an eleven-man consensus committee headed
by retired Justice Ojuolape.

"I wish to state here that those who appeared before the national chairman of the party are all pro Minister of Police Affairs, Caleb
Olubolade. They all came to the national secretariat in an official vehicle provided by the minister to further confirm that the state chairman
had been compromised", Fayose stated.

But in a reaction, Olubolade dismissed Fayose as a drowning man desperate to drag others down with him.

Speaking through his Ekiti State liaison officer, Mr. Alaba Agboola, in Abuja, the minister called on the leaders and members of the Ekiti
PDP not to be distracted in their quest to produce a credible candidate for the party in the good people of Ekiti State.

The minister said: "The Ekiti people are sick and tired of the culture of executive violence characterised by assassinations and killings of
political opponents as witnessed in our dear state in the past.

"Apparently, this culture of violence contributed to the erosion of the image of the Ekiti PDP at the time. What do we make of a situation
where someone aspiring to govern a state would storm the party secretariat with armed thugs wounding and chasing party officials out of
their duty posts.

"Fayose is being haunted by his past and he should be honest enough to situate the blame for his present predicament within the context of
his past deeds and misdeeds.

"Affliction shall not arise for the good people of Ekiti for the second time. The PDP truly desires to reclaim Ekiti State but the party has made
it clear that its candidate will not emerge through a process of violence.