Olusegun Ariyo
Former Special Adviser on Political Matters to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Babafemi Ojudu, has said ex-governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose lacks honour and can’t spell the word “politics.”
Ojudu remarked while recounting how he defeated Fayose during the 2011 senatorial election in Ekiti State.
He alleged that Fayose became governor after his impeachment because he engaged in vote-buying and the people of Ekiti State were hungry.
The former presidential aide disclosed this during an interview on Edmund Obilo’s podcast, State Affairs on Thursday morning.
Ojudu said despite Fayose having money to prosecute the election, he defeated him with 68,000 votes while the former governor had 28,000 votes.
According to Ojudu: “Fayose has no honour now, he is a man of dishonour, he became governor again because people are hungry, vote for a pot of soup and N5000, and everybody will vote in an environment of poverty.
“I have been the only one who defeated him in an election; he stood against me during the Senate election, he had 28,000 votes and I had 68,000 votes.
“This is also a story of how I defeated him, he had the money to spend but I didn’t have the money to spend.
“Then, a radio station organized a debate between me and him which was actually an unfair competition. When we got there, I went in my Agbada while he came in a Tee shirt and jeans.
“As soon as he entered, I saw an inscription on that Tee-shirt “Politics is Serious Business” and I saw that politics was wrongly spelt.
“I was happy that I had this guy today. I called my photographer, ‘Please snap his chest, which he did,’ we went on and he accused me of all sorts of things.
“He called me a roadside journalist and I was just waiting. After we had thrown all kinds of barbs at each other, the moderator said ‘we have come to the end of the debate but I will give you two minutes each. Who is going to start?’
“And I said my governor must start, he thought I was actually being civil but I needed to talk last so that he would have no reply.
“When he finished, I said ‘Today is my saddest day because I don’t know what to tell my 13-year-old daughter when I get back home – that the man who was my governor, who wants to go and represent Ekiti in the Senate does not know how to spell politics.
“People at home, I’m calling your attention to the chest of this former governor of yours who wants to go to the Senate and can’t spell politics – are we going to continue having illiterates in power? He just put his hands on his chest and ran out of the studio, that was a killer punch.”
