Chief Bode George, a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party has blasted the Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, for his comments against his national chairmanship ambition.
The Party chieftain also faulted Fayose for his comments as regards the PDP elders taking the backstage in the Party’s affairs.
Fayose had faulted the PDP leadership for the loss of the 2015 general election during an interview with Channels Television on Sunday.
Fayose also dismissed reports that he was in support of the acting National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff with the view of getting picked as his running mate for the 2019 presidential election.
Fayose during the interview said: “Chief Bode George told me personally that he wanted to be the national chairman of the party, I told him no, that I won’t support him. With all due respect to the elderly people in this party, they must take the backstage. People are tired of seeing the same old faces again.”
In response to that, Chief Bode George on Monday said:“The kind of chairman the PDP needs is someone that has integrity, one that is trusted and established,”
Adding that: “Fayose spoke very immaturely during the interview. For him to have said that the founding fathers of the party should take the backstage in the party’s affairs was very disgusting and self-deceitful. I actually told him at an old meeting of the party that if the chairmanship of the PDP was zoned to the South-West, that I would show interest. He told me he had heard.
“Fayose is an ingrate because when the world was against him during his first term in office, God used me to give him support. I contributed N250,000 to purchase his campaign clothes. We must defend the interest of Yoruba because we have been sidelined in the party’s leadership for too long. Fayose and Senator Buruji Kashamu cannot continue to decide for the Yoruba people in the PDP.”
Chief Bode George continued that Fayose lied about the interest of the South-West PDP leaders in contesting for yhr national chairmanship position adding that it was untrue that the South-West PDP leaders did not show interest.
“Fayose claims to be a Christian. Let him go and read the book of Micah, chapter 7, from verse 1-10 to learn more about leadership. Many people showed interest from the South-West, even Prof. Tunde Adeniran showed interest. Bode (Olajumoke) knows that Fayose is playing around. Bode and I discussed because we are friends.”