{"id":48205,"date":"2016-04-05T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=48205"},"modified":"2016-04-05T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:27:01","slug":"youths-threaten-leave-ekiti-apc-party-leaders-funding-aluko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/youths-threaten-leave-ekiti-apc-party-leaders-funding-aluko\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths threaten to leave Ekiti APC over party leaders funding of Aluko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some youths in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State, under<br \/>\nthe aegis of Ekiti APC Youths Congress (EAYC) have threatened to leave<br \/>\nthe party should leaders of the party, especially Minister of State<br \/>\nfor Solid Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi continued with their funding of<br \/>\nthe embattled former Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),<br \/>\nMr Temitope Aluko.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Aluko\u2019s truce meeting with Governor Ayodele Fayose in<br \/>\nwhich Aluko told journalists that he was now standing with the<br \/>\ngovernor and wanted peace, the APC youths lamented that they warned<br \/>\ntheir party leaders that Aluko was only duping them, but they refused<br \/>\nto listen.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement issued in Ado-Ekiti <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_616721711\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span> and jointly signed<br \/>\nby Mr Tope Ogunkuade and Comrade Tunji Adeleye, Convener and Secretary<br \/>\nrespectively, the EAYC reiterated their advice to leaders of the APC<br \/>\nto prepare for 2018 instead of wasting time and resources on Fayose\u2019s<br \/>\nremoval.<\/p>\n<p>The youths said it was painful that because of APC leaders\u2019 obsession<br \/>\nfor their \u201cFayose Must Go\u201d agenda, they refused to listen when they<br \/>\nwere being warned against wasting their money on Aluko.<\/p>\n<p>They said; \u201cNow that Aluko has returned to Fayose, Isn\u2019t it time for<br \/>\nour leaders to face reality and stop looking for crude means of<br \/>\ngetting Fayose out of office, and getting duped in the process?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While dismissing what they called damage control being done by the APC<br \/>\non Aluko\u2019s meeting with Fayose, the youths said instead of trying to<br \/>\ndefend the indefensible, those who have been wasting millions of naira<br \/>\non Aluko should ask themselves why he (Aluko) did not inform them when<br \/>\nhe was going to meet Fayose <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_616721712\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span> night.<\/p>\n<p>If Aluko was honest, shouldn\u2019t he have informed the likes of Dr Fayemi<br \/>\nand Senator Babafemi Ojudu before going to meet Fayose?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever excuses that Aluko gives today, he has vindicated our<br \/>\nposition that he was only scamming our party leaders and cashing in on<br \/>\ntheir desperation to return to power through the backdoor instead of<br \/>\npreparing for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It is however not too late for us if only our leaders will face<br \/>\nreality, purge themselves of this their \u2018Fayose Must Go\u2019 obsession and<br \/>\ndeploy their money into assisting our party members, who are dying of<br \/>\nhunger.<\/p>\n<p>Any further attempt to keep funding the likes of Aluko will mean that<br \/>\nour leaders have opted to ease us out of the party and we won\u2019t mind<br \/>\nleaving the APC for them before they kill it with their insensitivity<br \/>\nto the plights of our members.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some youths in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State, under the aegis of Ekiti APC Youths Congress (EAYC) have threatened to leave the party should leaders of the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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