A former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has restated his commitment to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This followed reports that he had left the party, just as former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai quitting the APC for the Social Democratic Party.
Fayemi, who had also served as Minister of Solid Minerals Development in the Muhammadu Buhari administration, restated the position he had always maintained: ‘I am a card carrying foundation member of the APC and this position has not changed’.
The statement read: ‘My attention has been drawn to a story circulating on several online platforms regarding my defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
‘As I have had cause to state in the past, I am a card carrying foundation member of the APC and this position has not changed.
‘While I have been at the vanguard of demand for greater internal democracy and inclusion in the ruling party, I believe it is still not late for our party to change course and move towards greater inclusion and internal democracy’.
When he first contested and won the Ekiti State governorship election, Fayemi was a member of the Action Congress, which later merged with some other political parties to form APC. He fought doggedly for three years in the courts to reclaim the victory denied him in 2007.
Fayemi returned in 2018 to contest under APC and emerged victorious.
