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Presidency Not For Ponmo, Amala Eaters, Melaye Slams Fayose 

Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting

Former member of the Senate, Dino Melaye, has slammed former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, saying presidency isn’t for eaters of ponmo (cow hide) and amala (yam flour paste) but serious minded folks.

In a statement signed and dropped in his verified Facebook account, Melaye reprimanded Fayose for his uncomplimentary remarks on former vice president Atiku Abubakar and former president, Bukola Saraki.

Stonix News reports that the former Ekiti governor had, after obtaining his presidential nomination form under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, went to a popular restaurant to fill his belly with Amala – the video of which went viral on the social media.

Melaye, who’s rooting for an Atiku Abubakar presidency come 2023, accused the PDP presidential aspirant as ruining the party in his home state with no elective post retained by the PDP both at national, state and local government levels in the state.

The political activist also insinuated that Fayose is out to de-market the duo of Abubakar and Saraki to favour a leading presidential aspirant belonging to the APC in Lagos.

“Inebriated by several wraps of Amala in Abuja, former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, in his characteri stic exuberance directed indecent and indecorous attacks at two serious contenders for the Presidential ticket of the People’s Democratic Party, HE Atiku Abubakar and HE Bukola Saraki.

“Incidentally, the mauling of Amala gained more publicity over the collection of the Presidential nomination form, in a pretentious exhibition of dining with the masses.

“This frugal populism has since been deflated by allegations of charges for the ferreting of billions of naira from public coffers in Ekiti State. Is Amala and Abula so expensive?

“The issue before Nigerians now is not who can eat more , but who can produce food. That is why the attempt to tar the outstanding achievements of Atiku Abubakar as former Vice President and Bukola Saraki as former Senate President by Fayose would be discounted as the belching perfidy of a Presidential gambler.

“It is clear from the verbal missiles deployed by Fayose that he was simply de-marketing frontline aspirants in PDP as a counterintuitive strategy to shore up the chances of his political godfather in APC.

“It is amazing that Fayose who could not manage and retain a PDP state now aspires to lead a behemoth structure like Nigeria. Today, Ekiti is stripped of all vestiges of PDP; no PDP Senator, no PDP House of Representatives Member, no House of Assembly member, no Local Government Chairman, and not even a Councillor.

“He left Ekiti State worse than he met it. How could he fail in the state and expect promotion to the National?

“The contest for the ticket of PDP and the Presidency of Nigeria is a serious engagement. Those who aspire to the position must elevate themselves above pedestrian conduct and address real issues, rather than dwelling on inconsequential inanities,” Melaye noted.

Kogi State-born Melaye, therefore, called on the national leadership of the PDP to call “Fayose to order, by curtailing his unproductive verbiage against serious contenders.

“Having failed to upgrade from local political space to the national stage, Fayose may, indeed, be assisted to undertake a week-long orientation session on the ethics and codes of peer relations on a presidential canvass.

“Nigeria is in dire straits at the moment. It is beyond the call of jesters in the corridors of elevated governance.”

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