Some youths in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State, under
the aegis of Ekiti APC Youths Congress (EAYC) have threatened to leave
the party should leaders of the party, especially Minister of State
for Solid Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi continued with their funding of
the embattled former Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Mr Temitope Aluko.
Reacting to Aluko’s truce meeting with Governor Ayodele Fayose in
which Aluko told journalists that he was now standing with the
governor and wanted peace, the APC youths lamented that they warned
their party leaders that Aluko was only duping them, but they refused
to listen.
In a press statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday and jointly signed
by Mr Tope Ogunkuade and Comrade Tunji Adeleye, Convener and Secretary
respectively, the EAYC reiterated their advice to leaders of the APC
to prepare for 2018 instead of wasting time and resources on Fayose’s
removal.
The youths said it was painful that because of APC leaders’ obsession
for their “Fayose Must Go” agenda, they refused to listen when they
were being warned against wasting their money on Aluko.
They said; “Now that Aluko has returned to Fayose, Isn’t it time for
our leaders to face reality and stop looking for crude means of
getting Fayose out of office, and getting duped in the process?”
While dismissing what they called damage control being done by the APC
on Aluko’s meeting with Fayose, the youths said instead of trying to
defend the indefensible, those who have been wasting millions of naira
on Aluko should ask themselves why he (Aluko) did not inform them when
he was going to meet Fayose on Sunday night.
If Aluko was honest, shouldn’t he have informed the likes of Dr Fayemi
and Senator Babafemi Ojudu before going to meet Fayose?
Whatever excuses that Aluko gives today, he has vindicated our
position that he was only scamming our party leaders and cashing in on
their desperation to return to power through the backdoor instead of
preparing for 2018.
It is however not too late for us if only our leaders will face
reality, purge themselves of this their ‘Fayose Must Go’ obsession and
deploy their money into assisting our party members, who are dying of
hunger.
Any further attempt to keep funding the likes of Aluko will mean that
our leaders have opted to ease us out of the party and we won’t mind
leaving the APC for them before they kill it with their insensitivity
to the plights of our members.”