EKITI GUBER ELECTION: OPEYEMI BAMIDELE DEBUNKS RUMOUR OF DECAMPING TO PDP

-"I CANNOT STEP DOWN FOR ANYBODY"

Honourable Opeyemi Bamidele, the Labour Party candidate in the Ekiti State gubernatorial election, billed to hold next Saturday, has come out to debunk the rumour, which centered on him, decamping to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

Early this morning, the rumour mill was agog with the news that Bamidele had dumped his party and stepped down for the PDP candidate, Ayodele Fayose. According to the peddlers of this rumour, Bamidele had attended a meeting with some top PDP stalwarts, and which lasted all night. The rumour kite which was flown by Ayodele Fasoye's camp, claimed that Bamidele agreed to to stepped down, after he was promised a Ministerial slot and the Senate Presidency.

However, while describing such claim as spurious, Bamidele, a former Commissioner of Information in Lagos State and a member of the House of Representatives, assured his teeming supporters he was still very much in the race. In his words, “It has just been brought to my knowledge the rumors being spread by our envious detractors... I am here on this platform to dispel such rumors and to assure Ekiti kete that I am still in the race, under the Labour party and have no plan of stepping down for anybody or switching to any party. I am a bona fide member of the Labour Party (LP) and I remain her gubernatorial candidate”

Reacting to the rumour, Bolanle Olatunde Bruce, spokesperson for the Ekiti State Labour Party, described it as a “lie from the pit of hell”. According to her, “Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele of the Labour Party is in the Ekiti Government race to win. Ekiti people want a clean break from the past (both Fayemi & Fayose). No meeting was held and no deal was sealed. Our pact is with the good people of Ekiti. Ayo Fayose's past is obviously haunting him, hence he is afraid of the Ark of God that has arrived Ekiti for good. No amount of street-like tactics or tantrums can stop this Ark of God from berthing in Ekiti. MOB is the man of the people, Labour Party is the worker friendly party.