Sunday, February 07, 2016

I didn’t pay Aluko to win election, Bamidele replies Fayose’s Aide

Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele 
A member of the seventh House of Representatives, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, has refuted the allegation made by the Special Assistant to Governor Ayodele Fayose on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, that he purchased his victory during the 2011 National Assembly elections.

Olayinka, had in an interview published on Saturday alleged that a former state secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Tope Aluko, sold his mandate to Bamidele for $100,000 in the 2011 general elections.

While Bamidele was the candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1, comprising Ado/Irepodun/Ifelodun Local governments, Aluko was the candidate of the PDP.Fayose and Aluko had been embroiled in crisis in the last two weeks over allegation raised by the latter that the PDP in alliance with the military rigged out ex-governor Kayode Fayemi  during theJune 21, 2014 governorship poll in favour of the incumbent governor.

A statement issued by Bamidele’s Media Aide, Ahmed Salami, on Sunday, condemned Olayinka for what he described as ‘character assassination’, urging the Fayose’s Aide to desist from unwarranted mudslinging, in their desperate attempt to wriggle out of the messy situation they found themselves.

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