Secretary remains expelled from PDP-Publicity Sec

By Razaq Bamidele 

GOVERNOR Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and his estranged friend and former secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ekiti State chapter, Dr. Temitope K. Aluko, have reconciled and reunited as friends and brothers as they used to be before crisis threw them apart.

Both Fayose and Aluko met Sunday night in Lagos behind closed door to resolve the lingering crisis between them since 2014.

The duo emerged from Eko Hotel Signature at midnight to declared to the waiting journalists that the crisis between them was now over and thing of the past with commitment to work together again to move the state forward.

The reconciliation effort was facilitated by the immediate past speaker of Ekiti State

House of Assembly, Hon. Dele Olugbemi, who was of the conviction that united we stand, divided we fall.

Fielding questions from the press men, Aluko said he had come down to see Governor Fayose, who he described as his brother, declaring that the crisis that led to misunderstanding between them was being resolved and that appreciable progress had been made towards achieving a lasting peace.

While blaming the crisis on undue interference from some quarters, Aluko said the processes leading to renewed peace between him and the governor was being achieved without any string or condition attached.

In his own remarks Governor Fayose admitted that,”we are resolving the issue, we have made appreciable progress and we hope and pray to God that there will be peace.

“In politics, we resolve issues like this and we have made considerable progress like Aluko had said. His coming back is to further strengthen the progress he is talking about and I am sure if this is not important, he won’t be here. He is here because there must be peace.”

When asked whether he had forgiven Aluko, Governor Fayose reiterated, “You see, whether you are talking of forgiveness, Aluko remains my boy, my son.

Aluko had made several damning allegations against Governor Fayose concerning how he allegedly took advantage of then federal might to subvert the Ekiti poll’s credibility, describing the 2014 that brought Fayose back in office as

a “coup against Ekiti people.”

Meanwhile, the PDP, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has said Aluko remains barred from the party.

The party, which described whatever happened between the state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose and Aluko in the meeting held in Lagos yesterday as “settling of personal grouses” said it wouldßßß not reverse his expulsion from the party.

State Publicity Secretary of the party, Jackson Adebayo, while reacting to the said meeting of Governor Fayose and Aluko in Lagos, said as far as the PDP in Ekiti State is concerned, “Aluko has been expelled and he remained expelled.”

He said “After collaborating with the APC to cause the confusion, I can say it categorically that Aluko is not welcomed in the PDP in Ekiti State.