You’re A Poor Student Of Struggle – Oshiomhole Tells Fayose

BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has described Ekiti governor Ayo Fayose as a ‘poor student of struggle’ with penchant for primitive tactics.

He said at the grand rally for Mr Kayode Feyemi, the governorship candidate of APC on Tuesday that “Fayose abuses everybody. He is a typical armed robber who diverts attention of the police in order to escape.”

Comrade Oshiomhole, who accused Fayose of grounding commercial vehicles and paying the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to park their vehicles in Government House to disrupt attendance at the APC’s mega rally, said this obvious resort to primitive tactics was unbecoming of a governor.

“Fayose also gave an unlawful order asking all shops and markets to close today. He has also called workers to monitor workers’ vote to know who is voting for APC. The fighting spirit of Ekiti people overcame all the obstacles created by a man”, he said

The APC National Chairman urged the Ekiti people not to be intimidated; saying; “no one can intimidate you. Remember you are educated more than the man who is trying to manipulate you.”

Oshiomhole rubbished the opposition parties’ coalition of CUPP as “an alliance of lies”, assuring that Fayemi would clear all salary arrears and settle all pensioners that have not been paid in the last one year.

Describing President Muhammadu Buhari as a true democrat and a progressive that would not intimidate anyone irrespective of political divide, the APC Chairman blasted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for its crude tactics of preventing opposition APC members from attending the then Governor Fayemi’s campaign in 2014.

Oshiomhole, who accused Governor Fayose of spreading poverty among the Ekiti people, said; “Around this time four years ago, PDP was going to make sure I did not come to Ekiti to campaign. I was denied movement. Buhari, I praise you for not doing what they did. You are not for vengeance but for correction.

“He has pauperised the people. The workers are not paid and so cannot pay their rents nor go to the market. Fayose has brought poverty because he belongs to a deceiving party”, Oshiomhole said

In his remarks at the event, Governor of Ogun State, Mr Ibikunle Amosu also recounted how in 2014, the PDP federal government prevented him from entering Ado Ekiti to attend APC’s governorship rally.

Applauding President Buhari for his openheartedness, Amosu said the President has not and would not stop anyone from attending rallies because he is noble and a true democrat. – With agency reports