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Ekiti People Instigated Me Against Fayemi, M.O.B Confesses, Pleads Support Ahead 2018
The Ekiti June 2014 Labour Party gubernatorial candidate and former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (M.O.B), has disclosed over the weekend that he was instigated into contest against the former governor of the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi in 2014, adding that what transpired before and during the election were orchestrated beyond his wishful act by some elements he can’t enlist on air to avoid escalation of rift.
He said he never planned to play a spoiler role as painted and presented against the chances of the former governor and present Minister of Solid Minerals Development, but several forces, mostly within the All Progressive Congress (APC), the political party that produced Dr. Fayemi, heavily prevailed on him to decamp and contest against the incumbent.
“What happened between me and Dr. Fayemi was not new in politics. It was individuals interest protection, and everybody is allowed to do that with whatever method or means in active politics. It’s absolutely unavoidable.
“I pray that God will return all our losses and this could only happen when we are one and united.
“APC has lost elections persistently because we are divided. Whoever knows me well will realize that I am not a desperado, nor a traitor.
“I have always believe strongly in the will of God,” Bamidele said.
Spelling out why he had decided to return to the APC despite his ordeals with the party during the 2014 electioneering campaign of his Bibiire Coalition, in where several lives were lost and properties worth millions damaged, Bamidele explained to newsmen that what happened then could happen to anybody, saying it was called political battle and not individual issue between him and Fayemi.
He said, that formed part of why he had later chosen to return to the progressives, because he believed what happened then was mere politics and nothing more attached as may be insinuated at different quarters.
He said; “I have taken my time to redress and correct some mistakes which were unavoidably made in 2014 before returning to APC. I was pushed and I fell victim of circumstances, but I thank God the hope is still very much alive.
“I didn’t defect to PDP in the first place, because I was conscious of my background in politics which cannot and would not have gone far without the endless support of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“But I want to apologize to whoever I must have offended by my defection to LP to contest at that time.
“In politics, differences can come in diverse ways. It has come for us in APC and we lost an election. So what should be paramount to us now is reconciliation and how to restructure our party in order to present a more credible guber candidate by 2018, as I still plead for your support.”
