Politics
Fayose lacks honour, canโt spell โpoliticsโ โ Buhariโs ex-aide, Ojudu

Former Special Adviser on Political Matters to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Babafemi Ojudu, has said ex-governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose lacks honour and canโt spell the word โpolitics.โ
Ojudu made the remark while recounting how he defeated Fayose during the 2011 senatorial election in Ekiti State.
He alleged that Fayose became governor after his impeachment because he engaged in vote-buying and the people of Ekiti State were hungry.
The former presidential aide disclosed this during an interview on Edmund Obiloโs podcast, State Affairs on Thursday morning.
Ojudu said despite Fayose having money to prosecute the election, he defeated him with 68,000 votes while the former governor had 28,000 votes.
According to Ojudu: โFayose has no honour now, he is a man of dishonour, he became governor again because people are hungry, vote for a pot of soup and N5000, everybody will vote in an environment of poverty.
โI have been the only one who defeated him in an election; he stood against me during the Senate election, he had 28,000 votes and I had 68,000 votes.
โThis is also a story of how I defeated him, he had the money to spend but I didnโt have the money to spend.
โThen, a radio station organized a debate between me and him which was actually an unfair competition. When we got there, I went in my Agbada while he came in a Tee shirt and jeans.
โAs soon as he entered, I saw an inscription on that Tee-shirt โPolitics is Serious Businessโ and I saw that politics was wrongly spelt.
โI was happy that I had this guy today. I called my photographer, โplease snap his chest, which he did,โ we went on and he accused me of all sorts of things.
โHe called me a road side journalist and I was just waiting. After we had thrown all kinds of barbs at each other, the moderator said โwe have come to the end of the debate but I will give you two minutes each. Who is going to start?โ
โAnd I said my governor must start, he thought I was actually being civil but I needed to talk last so that he would have no reply.
โWhen he finished, I said โtoday is my saddest day because I donโt know what to tell my 13-year-old daughter when I get back home โ that the man who was my governor, who wants to go and represent Ekiti in the Senate does not know how to spell politics.
โPeople at home, Iโm calling your attention to the chest of this former governor of yours who wants to go to the Senate and canโt spell politics โ are we going to continue having illiterates in power? He just put his hands on his chest and ran out of the studio, that was a killer punch.โ