THE All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has said that the state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose and his aides cannot criticise former President Olusegun Obasanjo on behalf of Ekiti people.
A statement by the publicity secretary of APC in Ekiti State, Mr Taiwo Olatunbosun, made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, said the governor and his aide were speaking for themselves or at best on behalf of their party in their “diatribes against former President Olusegun Obasanjo on behalf of Ekiti people.”
Reacting to Fayose’s condemnation of the visit of five PDP governors to former President Obasanjo at his Abeokuta home and his subsequent outbursts, including calling for his expulsion from PDP and imprisonment over alleged contempt of the court, Olatunbosun, said “Fayose is not qualified to speak on behalf of Ekiti people in a clearly political squabble by the PDP gladiators.”
Olatunbosun explained that Owoseni Ajayi, who wrote as the Attorney-General criticising Obasanjo on behalf of the state for not obeying a court order on his book publication, is not known to law as the Attorney-General of the state because he was not screened and confirmed by a properly constituted House of Assembly, stressing that he remains a commissioner-nominee until he is legally screened and confirmed by the assembly.
The APC spokesman warned that Fayose and his aides should not turn PDP’s internal affairs into the state affairs, as that would be a misrepresentation of the good people of Ekiti State.
He said: “If we agree without conceding that he is an Attorney-General, he is at best a busy body in the matter between Obasanjo and Buruji Kashamu concerning the launching of his book.
“What is the business of a state government in a matter between Obasanjo and Kashamu that warranted issuing a statement on behalf of the entire citizens of a state? The Ekiti APC dissociates the good people of Ekiti State from the statement issued by Ajayi calling for the imprisonment of Obasanjo for alleged contempt of court.
“A bed-wetter does not haggle with a dry cleaner. If anybody will criticise anyone for disobedience of court orders, it is not Ajayi who is a product of illegality and his principal a promoter of lawlessness.