The Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi has debunked as “false” and “highly embarrassing” reports that he stormed out of a meeting with National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other South West leaders of the party last Tuesday.
He said he had no reason to storm out of the meeting as it had already ended.
Fayemi, a former governor of Ekiti, is seeking a second term in office, and the meeting was conveyed to forge a way forward for the party over the rescheduled Ekiti governorship primary of the party.
Speaking through a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Yinka Oyebode, Fayemi accused the sponsors of the report in the mainstream and social media of attempting to tarnish his image.
“It is thus worrisome and highly embarrassing reading reports of purported ‘walk out’ on our leaders when nothing like that actually took place.
“We implore well-meaning members of the society and members of our great party to disregard the misleading reports.”
Explaining why he could not make it to the second half of the meeting held in the evening, Fayemi said that he had already taken permission from the party leaders to be at another meeting by the time the meeting was reconvening.