Senate Presidency: Fayemi denies alliance with PDP

Gov. Fayemi

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has said that the Action Congress of Nigeria in the state did not enter into any alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party to produce the next President of the Senate.
Fayemi said this in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday while distributing tools to artisans and farmers in the state.
The governor claimed that leaders of the PDP in the state had been pressurising him to support a particular senatorial candidate of the PDP to win the National Assembly poll scheduled to hold on April 26 so that the senator could be considered as the next President of Senate, which he said the PDP chiefs claimed had been zone to the South West.
“Where did they (PDP) hold the meeting that the senate president has been zoned to the South West and that only the PDP can produce the senate president. Let them tell you where it is written in the constitution that only the PDP has the right to produce the senate president,” he said.
The governor who urged the people to vote massively for candidates of the ACN said that the party paraded the best in the state.
He said, “To improve on our programmes and people-oriented projects, we need people of like minds who would cooperate with us at the state assembly. I urge you to work for the development of Ekiti State by voting for candidates of the ACN.”
Meanwhile, the governor has congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan on his re-election.
He urged the President to use the opportunity of his election to address the various problems affecting the practice of true federalism in the country.
Fayemi, in his congratulatory message to the President on Wednesday, also urged Jonathan to act fast in nipping post-election violence in the bud to prevent further loss of lives and property in all parts of the country.
He noted that Jonathan’s victory and the competition offered by candidates of other political parties in the presidential election had further consolidated participatory democracy in the country.
Fayemi opined that although Nigeria claimed to be practising federalism, the country was still being run as a unitary state.
He advised Jonathan to carry out a review of the existing revenue allocation formula to give states and local governments more share of the nation’s wealth.
By Femi Makinde, Ado-Ekiti            Courtesy Of: Punch