– Dr. Temitope Aluko said that his purported
reconciliation with Governor Ayodele Fayose was
stage-managed
– Aluko said he was misled into the purported
reconciliation staged on Sunday, April 3
Fayose and Aluko reconcile
Drama has continued to unfold as controversial
former Ekiti state PDP secretary, Dr. Temitope Aluko
dropped a bombshell, saying that his purported
reconciliation with Governor Ayodele Fayose on
Sunday, April 3, was stage-managed.
Aluko had told the whole world how the 2014
governorship election in Ekiti State was rigged in
favour of Fayose. Aluko’s turn around with a
purported reconciliation with Fayose at the weekend
baffled many as he was tagged unserious.
The embattled politician told newsmen at the
Renaissance Hotel, Ikeja on Tuesday, April 5, that he
was misled into the purported reconciliation staged
at the weekend, while denouncing the reconciliation,
which he said was aimed at rubbishing his earlier
claim that the election was rigged.
He said: “I need to emphasize that all that
transpired at Eko hotel on that fateful day was an
organized propaganda, drama to stain my image and
malign my personal integrity and I believe it would
be a good script for Nollywood Act. I received a call
from two senior members of the party, one of them
is a serving senator and the other one a former
governor. I was told to come to Eko hotel to meet
with them and I went in company of my wife.
“We were half way in the discussion which they
tagged as a peace parley. It should be noted that no
reference was made to the 2014 Governorship
election and the aftermath including my revelation to
the public about the way the election was
manipulated in favour of Ayo Fayose.
“I was shocked to see Governor Fayose walk into the
meeting at this point. It was worthy of note that it
was at this point that my wife barged into the
meeting to inform me that he noticed the presence
of pressmen downstairs and said, “there is a
problem” but it was Fayose who interrupted her and
said, “Madam, there is no problem” but my wife
insisted and said she overheard them saying that
they were called back with an SMS from Governor
Fayose “because T.K Aluko is around,” he explained.
Aluko said at that point he became enraged and
decided to leave the place but that he noticed Fayose
rushing after him downstairs in a Gestapo manner.
“My wife was already fidgeting and almost crying
and suddenly I could not find her around me.
Immediately, I realized that I need to oblige to
Governor Fayose’s instruction of facing the press
because of the safety of my family. One fact remains
clear, there is nowhere I refuted anything I had
earlier said before Nigerians and the whole world
about the manipulations that characterized the 2014
Governorship elections in Ekiti State,” he stated.
Lere Olayinka, the special assistant to the Ekiti state
governor on public communications and new media,
in reaction to the reconciliation between Fayose and
Aluko, wondered how the former Ekiti state PDP
secretary could “return to the same Governor Fayose
that he claimed rigged election because he lacked
integrity” and “how he will feel when he comes face
to face with the people that he has destroyed”.
Olayinka said he was speaking in his personal
capacity, not as the governor’s spokesperson.
He applauded Fayose for displaying his
statesmanship and reconciling with Aluko.
NAIJ
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