Governor Fayose, who visited former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel in his Lagos residence on Sunday night, described the party as “a sleeping, and not a dead lion.”
A statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, quoted Fayose as promising to work with all PDP leaders across the country to make a success of his tenure.
According to him, PDP still boasts of the best and established structures across the country, which need only re-activation by putting all hands on deck.
Governor Fayose who had earlier received former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana and former governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje at his Lagos residence described the present challenges being faced by the PDP as “a phase that we can overcome most importantly that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government has failed to impress Nigerians and
succeeded in pauperising the nation by its cluelessness.” Governor Fayose added: “falling is not unusual, but remaining in the falling state is admittance of perpetual defeat, which the PDP must not submit itself to.”
He lamented that Nigeria is being led by a nepotistic and dictatorial President, who has made the country to be more divided more than ever before. “With the unleashing of hunger and suffering on Nigerians, PDP stands to gain electorally ahead of 2019 if the party puts its house in order.”
The governor, who called on all serving and former governors as well as other leaders of the PDP to rise to the rescue of the party by providing fearless and sincere leadership for party faithful, described the continuous closure of the party national secretariat as part of the deliberate efforts of the APC led federal government and its agents like the police and SSS to make Nigeria a one party state.
Responding, former Governor Gbenga Daniel likened Fayose to the biblical Daniel, who believed in the rebuilding of the Macedonian wall.
Otunba Daniel, who called for support for Fayose to achieve his good intentions for the PDP, described him (Fayose) “as a fearless, focused and courageous man, and a timely interventionist with a realisable mission.” [myad]
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