By Emmanuel Ebimoh
Senator Buruji Kashamu, representing Ogun East constituency, has reacted to the possibility that former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar might have picked Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose as his running mate in next year’s presidential elections.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the senator said that any candidate who picks the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, as his running mate in next’s year’s election, is endangering his life.
This rumour was fuelled by the recent visit of Atiku Abubakar to the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. It is believed, from the recent political romance between the two PDP warlords, that Atiku, who had for long nursed the ambition of becoming the President, might have struck a deal with the Governor, persuading him to be his running mate for the 2019 presidential election.
In reaction to this, Senator Kashamu, in a statement, rebuked Fayose for nursing any vice-presidential ambition.
“He is going nowhere. In fact, no reasonable presidential candidate will pick a cantankerous and inordinately ambitious person as his running mate.
“Any presidential candidate who picks Fayose as his running mate endangers his life should he win. Since he fraudulently took control of the party structure in the South-West, what has he been able to do with it? Nothing!
“He is fighting the political battle of his life to install another of his stooge as his successor, in the face of stiff opposition from within.
“In a couple of months, the forthcoming Ekiti governorship election would put a lie to his claim of invincibility and uncultured disturbance of our political space,” Kashamu said.
