Biodun Olujimi, former Senate Minority Leader, has revealed that the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose became governor both in his second term through her unforgettable roles.
In an interview with THE NATION newspaper, Olujimi said but for her influence and unalloyed support, Fayose would not have been allowed to participate in the PDP governorship primary election that produced him as the party’s flag bearer.
The former lawmaker who spoke through her spokesman, Chief Bunmi Olugbade stated that the former governor was initially denied entry into the party until she prevailed on the party hierarchy.
She disclosed that Fayose with retinue of his loyalist at different occasions came to beg her to help secure party ticket for his second term before she finally acceded to his request.
Olujimi noted that she played unforgettable roles in ensuring his emergence as the party flag bearer and victory at the poll by deploying her resources and mobilising the votes of the three senatorial districts, which the she said was instrumental to his electoral victory in large proportion.
She said: “I played unforgettable role in Fayose emergence as Ekiti governor. I helped Fayose back to the party. I was going to contest the governorship before he came. When he came, he could not come into the party, the party said no way; He came to me and said please, help, let’s work together. Let me come back into the party, if we win and then, you will determine what you want.
“But for him to now come out and say I made Olujimi this and that is a blatant falsehood.
“We are both benefactor to each other. Although I was nominated under him as party candidate for Senate, before then I played a significant role in ensuring his emergence as the party’s flag bearer in the first and second term.”