Fayose Is An Ingrate And A Liar - Bode George

Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has described Ayodele Fayose the Ekiti State governor as an ungrateful person for opposing his interest of becoming the national chairman of the party in the forthcoming PDP Convention. Chief George also attack Fayose for saying that PDP elders must allow new faces to be at the helms of affairs of the party and asking the elders to take a back stage.


Governor Fayose while speaking on a Channels Television programme over the weekend had blamed the loss of the 2015 general election on the elders of the party. He went ahead to dismiss the report that he was standing behind the acting National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Alimodu Sheriff, so that he could pick him as his running mate when Sheriff finally declares his intention to run for the presidency in 2019.

Fayose was alleged to have said “Chief Bode George told me personally that he wanted to be the national chairman of the party, I told him no, that I won’t support him. With all due respect to the elderly people in this party, they must take the backstage. People are tired of seeing the same old faces again.”
But in a swift response to Fayose's claim, Chief George said Fayose was opposing the interest of the South-West in the party, adding that his comments showed that he was not a mature politician. He maintained that the party needed experienced and mature leaders to move its affairs, George said good leadership had nothing to do with age saying that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, was older than him.

“The kind of chairman the PDP needs is someone that has integrity, one that is trusted and grounded in grassroot politics. Fayose spoke very immaturely during the interview. For him to have said that the founding fathers of the party should take the backstage in the party’s affairs was very disgusting and self-deceitful. Chief George added.

Accordingnto to him, Chief Bode George said “I actually told him at an old meeting of the party that if the chairmanship of the PDP was zoned to the South-West, that I would show interest. He told me he had heard. Chief George also said Fayose is an ingrate because when the world was against him during his first term in office, I gave him my total support. I contributed N250,000 to purchase his campaign clothes.

He said also that the governor lied that the South-West PDP leaders did not show interest in contesting the national chairmanship position,adding that Fayose’s claim that he reached out to Senator Bode Olajumoke to contest the chairmanship position was not true.