One of the most trusted and reliable aides of Ekiti
State Governor Ayo Fayose, Chief Segun
Akinwumi, has resigned his appointment after over
three years in office.
Akinwumi was appointed as Director General/
Special Adviser on Procurement Matters where he
served for three years before he was later
appointed Special Assistant on General Matters.
The politician who also served as Commissioner
for Water Resources
during Fayose’s first tenure quit over Fayose’s
alleged moves to impose his deputy, Prof. Kolapo
Olusola as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
candidate in the 2018 governorship poll.
He accused the governor of playing God with the
way he (Fayose) is handling the politics of
succession in Ekiti PDP. Akinwumi said he
doubted Fayose’s claim that God spoke to him on
Olusola’s choice.
The former Special Adviser who is also a former
Chairman of Ilejemeje Local Government tendered
his resignation via a letter dated 29th. December,
2017 which was addressed to Fayose. He did not
give any reason in the letter for throwing in the
towel.
The five-paragraph letter reads: “I hereby tender
my resignation with immediate effect.
“Sir, you would recall that on 24th October, 2014,
you appointed me
Director General/Special Adviser on Procurement
Matters in your
government, the position I held until I was
redeployed as Special
Assistant, General Matters, till today, 29th
December, 2017.
“I thank you most sincerely for giving me the rare
opportunity to
serve at both appointments. Please accept the
assurances of my kindest
regards.”
When asked in a telephone chat by our reporter
on Sunday why he
resigned from the Fayose administration,
Akinwumi said he took the
decision to protect his integrity and the good
name he has built over
the years in politics.
He claimed that Fayose had first told him and
other aides to work for
former Attorney General and Commissioner for
Justice, Mr. Owoseni
Ajayi and later former Commissioner for Works,
Mr. Kayode Oso as
successor
Akinwumi said: “I am a product of establishment
for the past 39 years
and under the tutelage of Baba Awolowo. People
were brought in under
establishment, it was Baba Ayo Fasanmi that
brought us into politics.
“Bringing somebody (Olusola) from nowhere,
bringing somebody from the
sidelines will not work. It is someone within the
system that we want
in the PDP.
“Fayose should stop playing God in our party, let
the national
leadership and people that matter tell him not to
play God again in
our party because you cannot mock God.
“Fayose had told us that he would serve out his
tenure together with
his deputy. No God has spoken to anybody about
it, no one can play God
no matter how highly placed and anyone that
plays God will become an
ex-person.
“This was a man (Fayose) that said in public
glare on April 24, 2014
that Owoseni Ajayi should not contest to be
deputy governor but a
governorship material.
“Fayose also promised before the whole world
that when his tenure
finishes in 2018, he and his deputy, (Olusola)
Eleka would leave the
Government House together.
“Eleka should be advised to dust his papers and
go back to classroom
because imposition won’t work in our party.
Politics has not got to a
level in which somebody will be begged to contest
the governorship in
which the whole state is your constituency.
He said further: “How can you just wake up one
day and impose
(Olusola) Eleka on other party members and
leaders? PDP is not a
one-man party, one man cannot just decide who
is the party’s flag
bearer at a governorship election expected to be
keenly contested.
“This was the same governor who asked us to be
working for Owoseni
Ajayi telling us that himself and the deputy
governor would serve out
their tenure together, that both of them are
leaving the Government
House together.
“Later, he said we should stop working for
Owoseni Ajayi, that the
person now to work with was Kayode Oso and we
started wondering what
was going on.
“He later came to tell us that it is no longer Oso
again that we
should now work for (Olusola) Eleka. We asked
questions, he said he
would not tolerate any question from us that we
should just carry out
his order. Eleka cannot work, we need a popular
and acceptable
candidate.”
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