Posters for the 2014 governorship poll bearing the names and pictures of former Governor Ayo Fayose and a member of House of Representatives, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, purportedly seeking to contest the election on the platform of the Labour Party have created fresh crisis between the Action Congress of Nigeria and the former governor.
Although Fayose had in 2011 contested the Senate seat on the platform of the LP, he had since returned to the PDP. Bamidele is still a member of the ruling ACN in the state.
But the Ayo Fayose Campaign Organisation in a statement on Monday by its Director of Publicity and Research, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, accused the ACN of being behind the posters.
In a response to the allegation, the Director of Publicity of the ACN, Chief Tai Oguntayo, said those embarrassing Fayose were within the PDP.
The ACN spokesperson warned Fayose against attacking the ACN based on his embarrassment which he said was predicted by his (Fayose) enemies within the PDP.
The statement read in part, “Two days before Opeyemi Bamidele's poster surfaced in major towns across the state. Campaign posters of Mr. Ayodele Fayose, purporting that he wanted to contest on the banner of Labour Party littered the whole state. This, to us, is an act of cowardice, as the posters were pasted in the night.”
Oguntayo had earlier accused the opposition in the state of being behind the pasting of Bamidele's posters purportedly seeking to contest the governorship poll on the platform of the LP in 2014.
The ACN spokesperson said, “Bunmi Ojo, a former personal assistant of Mr. Segun Oni, recently came out openly on the Facebook and he issued a statement to say that Fayose would be thoroughly embarrassed.”
