Fayose urges support for all-inclusive efforts to rebuild PDP, visits Gbenga Daniel

By Lere Olayinka

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

Governors’ Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called for support for

all-inclusive efforts to rebuild the PDP, describing the party as “a

sleeping, and not a dead lion.”
Governor Fayose, who emerged as Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum

last Thursday, made this call when he visited former governor of Ogun

State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel in his Lagos residence on Sunday night.

According to a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public

Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor, who

promised to work with all PDP leaders across the country to make a

success of his tenure, said that the party could still boast of the

best and established structure across the country, which needs only

reactivation by putting all hands on deck.
Earlier, Governor Fayose had received former Minister of Information,

Prof Jerry Gana and former governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos

State, Mr Jimi Agbaje, who visited the governor at his Lagos residence

to congratulate him.
While describing the present challenges being faced by the PDP as “a

phase that we can overcome most importantly that the All Progressives

Congress (APC) government has failed to impress Nigerians and

succeeded in pauperising the nation by its cluelessness,” Governor

Fayose said; “falling is not unusual, but remaining in the falling

state is admittance of perpetual defeat, which the PDP must not submit

itself to.”
He lamented that Nigeria was being led by a nepotistic and dictatorial

President, who has made the country to be more divided more than ever

before, adding that “With the unleashing of hunger and suffering on

Nigerians, PDP stands to gain electorally ahead of 2019 if the party

put its house in order.”
The governor, who called on all serving and former governors as well

as other leaders of the PDP to rise to the rescue of the party by

providing fearless and sincere leadership for party faithful,

described the continuous closure of the party national secretariat as

part of the deliberate efforts of the APC led federal government and

its agents like the police and SSS to make Nigeria a one party state.

Responding, former Governor Gbenga Daniel likened Fayose to the

biblical Daniel, who believed in the rebuilding of the Macedonian

wall.
Otunba Daniel, who called for support for Fayose to achieve his good

intentions for the PDP, described him (Fayose) as “as a fearless,

focused and courageous man, and a timely interventionist with a

realisable mission.”