Senator Buruji Kashamu, has said that any candidate who picks the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, as his running mate in next year's election, is endangering his life.
Senator Kashamu
In a statement released on Tuesday, the senator representing Ogun East, Buruji Kashamu, wrote-off the chances that the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, will get near the Presidency in 2019.
Recall that Governor Fayose had few months ago declared his intention to contest the office of the President in 2019, but he was recently visited by a former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, who had for long nursed the ambition of becoming the President.
While it was believed that Atiku might have struck a deal with Fayose and persuaded him to be his running mate for the 2019 presidential poll, Kashamu berated Fayose for positioning himself as a vice-presidential candidate adding that no reasonable person would pick Fayose, whom he described as “cantankerous,” as a running mate.
According to PUNCH, The lawmaker, said: “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 also expressed his delight at the Prince Uche Secondus leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party which, he said, had not allowed the scheme allegedly orchestrated by Fayose to suspend or expel him (Kashamu) from the party to sail through.
“It is gladdening that the party is now in the hands of true partymen and administrators like Prince Secondus and his team, who are being assisted by the very refined countryman, the Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson. As experienced politicians, they know that we need one another to build a strong and virile party,” he said.