Ekiti state governor and chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Dr. Kayode Fayemi has spoken on why he did not campaign for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded governorship election in Edo state.

He said campaigning for APC during the election would have amounted to campaigning against his colleague, Governor Godwin Obaseki who ran on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Obaseki polled a total of 307, 955 votes to defeat All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Osagie Ize-Iyamu who got 223, 619 votes, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

However, speaking with journalists in Lagos, Fayemi said he could not campaign for the APC in the election because his role as chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum does not allow him to campaign against any sitting governor who is seeking reelection.

He said those who are allowed to do so are the chairmen of the APC Governors Forum headed by Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi and Aminu Tambuwal who is the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum.

"I have been accused for example that I was not seen in Edo campaigning for my party or jumping around the rostrum. That is true. One, I have COVID-19 around that time and two, there is`a golden, unspoken rule in the Nigerian Governors Forum which is, the chairman of the Governors Forum does not campaign against a sitting governor”.

“Most people don’t know this but the chairman of the NGF can never campaign against a sitting governor running for election anywhere because my job is to protect, defend and to support a sitting governor whether of PDP, APC or APGA”.

“But the partisan forums, they have no apology about that. The job of Bagudu is to go and campaign for any APC governor running for office and it is the job of Tambuwal to do that for PDP governors. The NGF is about interest or issues that affect governors collectively”.

On how he has been successfully managing the affairs of the NGF “I don’t want to lay claim to having any extraordinary powers. But don’t forget, in the recent history of the Nigerian Governors Forum, I am probably the only chairman that has emerged by consensus”.

“There was no vote. PDP and APC governors agreed that I should be the chairman of the governors forum. PDP governors passionately pushed it as much as APC governors pushed it. So, even those who have it in mind that they will like to run, they immediately backed down”.

“I think that speaks to not just relationship building but also the focus of NGF itself. We are not a partisan body. We have our partisan forum. If you want to discuss partisanship, you go to Atiku Bagudu and Aminu Tambuwal. They are the chairmen of APC and PDP Governors Forum. I go there but I play a low-key role there” he said.

Nkwazemakennyj:
Trashhhhhhhhh......I wish some people would have preferred keeping quite than spitting trash

Nkwazemakennyj:


but a dullard can be the president of your country, u see ur life?

Nkwazemakennyj:


Bro.... Nigerians are more wiser than you think now so pls wake up from that dream

Goke7:
Fayemi you are an hypocrite period

Jack005:
All you Zombies of Nigeria like silvernorgold supporting Apc shall reap what they sow
their lives shall be ruled just like the way Apc is ruling Nigerians D

Miosendyin:
You never log in your manny bbq account? I know say u get up to 10 or more account on NrL

tutudesz:
Any APC governor who campaign for Ize-Iyamu knowing fully well what Oshopikin did to Obaseki was wrong, should not complain when they face the same treatment too.

"He said campaigning for APC during the election would have amounted to campaigning against his colleague"
How can he campaign against a friend

techmo:


What wrong did Oshiomhole do to Obaseki

Please tell us


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tutudesz:

So what Oshopikin did to Obaseki was right

SilverNorGold:

Lol.. Whether APC or PDP, what the people are interested in is good governance.

Why it looks like a lot of people want APC is that most of the good politicians are currently in APC, like President Muhammadu Buhari, Professor Osinbajo, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Zulum, El-rufai, Adams Oshiomole, etc.. But the PDP is peopled with disastrous elements called politicians, with just a "microscopic few" who are good, like Governor Obaseki and Governor David Umahi.

That's why almost all well-meaning Nigerians want all APC candidates to win. So if Fayemi preferred to play neutral, that's his business as he was not the decider. His support would have amounted to nothing as the power to decide belongs to the people.

Regarding the rumor going the rounds that he's eyeing the presidential throne, all I can say is that he has the right to contest like Atiku, Peter Obi and other clowns. But one thing I am sure of is that even if all these candidates imagine themselves contesting against Professor Osinbajo in the presidential election, Osinbajo will still win in their imaginations...

So if Fayemi did what he did because of any presidential plan, then he just fooled himself.

Signed

NL Zone B

God bless President Buhari.
God bless Professor Osinbajo.
God bless Nigerians.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Most people don’t know this but the chairman of the NGF can never campaign against a sitting governor running for election anywhere because my job is to protect, defend and to support a sitting governor whether of PDP, APC or APGA”.

Amotolongbo:
Lol.
He shall must find excuse.

But why were his allies in APC, El Rufai, Amechi and Atiku Bagudu (APC Governor’s Forum Chairman) also absent at the campaign?

techmo:




Save the long talk Mr ingrate, just know that you can't replace yourself with anybody you like in 2022 you can't campaign for anybody because Godfatherism has ended and all man should carry their cross

When Jonathan and Fayose showed him fire we know whose doors he ran to, we also know who sponsored his first term after returning to Nigeria as as a poor Ghanian lecturer

Some people like Fayemi and Elrufai make me laugh


The major reason Kennedy family, and Bush family only grew in Political dynasty is because they don't help the lousy ingrates, they keep it within the family, never help some of this people



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techmo:




Save the long talk Mr ingrate, just know that you can't replace yourself with anybody you like in 2022 you can't campaign for anybody because Godfatherism has ended and all man should carry their cross

When Jonathan and Fayose showed him fire we know whose doors he ran to, we also know who sponsored his first term after returning to Nigeria as as a poor Ghanian lecturer

Some people like Fayemi and Elrufai make me laugh


The major reason Kennedy family, and Bush family only grew in Political dynasty is because they don't help the lousy ingrates, they keep it within the family, never help some of this people



.

SilverNorGold:
Lol.. Whether APC or PDP, what the people are interested in is good governance.

Why it looks like a lot of people want APC is that most of the good politicians are currently in APC, like President Muhammadu Buhari, Professor Osinbajo, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Zulum, El-rufai, Adams Oshiomole, etc.. But the PDP is peopled with disastrous elements called politicians, with just a "microscopic few" who are good, like Governor Obaseki and Governor David Umahi.

That's why almost all well-meaning Nigerians want all APC candidates to win. So if Fayemi preferred to play neutral, that's his business as he was not the decider. His support would have amounted to nothing as the power to decide belongs to the people.

Regarding the rumor going the rounds that he's eyeing the presidential throne, all I can say is that he has the right to contest like Atiku, Peter Obi and other clowns. But one thing I am sure of is that even if all these candidates imagine themselves contesting against Professor Osinbajo in the presidential election, Osinbajo will still win in their imaginations...

So if Fayemi did what he did because of any presidential plan, then he just fooled himself.

God bless President Buhari.
God bless Professor Osinbajo.
God bless Nigerians.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

WATCHOVER:
You made no sense

sapientia:
Signed

NL Zone B .