S/WEST: Covetousness makes politicans to defect from one party to another – Fayose

*Says Fani-Kayode is going nowhere

FORMER Governor of Ekiti State,  Ayodele Fayose, has said nothing can make him leave the People’s Democratic Party for another party.

Fayose, who noted that the party had given him everything he could ever want as a politician, said nothing but covetousness makes some politicians to keep moving from one party to another.

Featuring on Channels TV on Sunday evening in reaction to the possibility of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode,  defecting from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress.

The former governor, who waxed biblical by quoting James 1:14, said, “Anyone who leaves PDP for APC at this time is taken up in his own covetousness…I know FFK is going nowhere, I’m 100% sure. It’s normal for you to sell your market to anyone interested.”

He added, “I’m over 60, what else am I looking for. I became governor at 42. All the opportunities I wanted, PDP offered me. Some people could choose to be dishonorable, not me.”

Also speaking on the ethnic clashes rocking the Southwest, and the emergence of ethnic warlords like Sunday Adeyemo, better known as ‘Sunday Igboho,  the PDP chieftain said non- state actors like Igboho could not be ignored at this moment considering the level of insecurity in the country.

Fayose said: “Sunday Igboho is not ignorable in the circumstance that we have found ourselves. He can now be used positively to make peace rather than condemn him or ask him to go, arrest him or put him behind bars.

“The situation we have at hand now calls for everyone to come to a round table and appeal to their people.

“Sunday Igboho might not be the best of persons but the fact remains that when crises come, they come from the lower cadre of the society and people like him are the ones that can talk to the people. Big men stay in their houses and will send people out to go and resolve it.

“My appeal is that Sunday Igboho, no matter how stupid or how you perceived him, must be brought and used positively in the resolution of this crisis.”

Speaking further on the ethnic crisis in Oyo, Fayose called on Governor Seyi Makinde to be more proactive.

He said: “Governor Makinde needs to be more proactive, Oyo state is a big state. Look at what happened in Igangan, when a similar incident happened in Ekiti, I was there that same day. I took charge of that community. I slept in that community. And immediately they mentioned names of people responsible, instead of fighting them, I brought them to the round table, and this I have told Governor Makinde. I sat him down.”