Fayose: God Will Choose My Successor.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, on Tuesday said God will choose his successor to lead the state even as he disclosed that he has somebody in mind.

He however said  enemies who didn’t want the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win the governorship were trying to cause disaffection between him and  other governorship aspirants in the state, including the former Minister of Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye.

Fayose cautioned PDP faithful in the state against sowing seeds of discord among aspirants and leadership of the party.

Adeyeye , the PDP Publicity National Secretary of the Caretaker Committee, led by Ahmed Makarfi, is interested in the plum job.

A statement  issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, said Fayose sounded the note of warning during a meeting last Monday at his Afao Ekiti residence with aspirants and leaders from Ikole, Ijero and Ise/Orun council areas.

The governor said he had nothing against the aspirations of those eyeing the state top seat, stressing that "followers need not create a wedge between me and gubernatorial aspirants. As much as aspirants have the right to aspire, I also reserve the right to support whoever God asks me to support.

"If I were asked to pick a candidate to succeed me, I would have picked Kayode Oso straight away. But I have called him into the room and told him to allow me seek God's consent concerning it.  I have called my deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, I have also called Bisi Omoyeni into the room and asked him to allow me seek God's consent.

“Whoever God chooses among the aspirants, we will support him. Whoever that is not the one, the spirit of sportsmanship should be embraced.

"I have nothing against Adeyeye, and I have great respect for him from ministerial appointment to chairmanship at Ekiti State University and then his recommendation to the party at the national level, I have always stood by him, I wouldn't have done that for someone I don't love, so mischief makers had better looked elsewhere to play their game."

Fayose appealed to party members to downplay personal agenda and ensure the party's interest is put on the front burner, adding that "never will any candidate be imposed on the people.

"We won't allow anybody to destroy the goodwill enjoyed presently by the PDP because there is no doubt about our   party's popularity in the state today.

"I want to assure you that nobody will impose anybody on you. With me here, you will all get justice,” he stated.

The governor, during the meeting with party members from Ijero

Ekiti, also directed that about 23 members hitherto suspended from the party be forgiven and reabsorbed into the party.

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Police Arrest Eight for cultism in Anambra

David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka

No fewer than eight suspected cultists, among them two girls and six boys, have been arrested for cultism in Anambra State.

The suspects were arrested in the early hours of yesterday at Ihiala, Ihiala Local Government Area of the state by the Special Anti-cultism Squad(SPACS) of the state Police Command.

SPACS Commander, Christopher Bassey, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), who confirmed the arrest to journalists, blamed negligence on the part of most parents and the crave for money as responsible for the rot in the society.

The cultists, who confessed to be members of Vipers and Junior Vikings Confraternity (JVC ), vowed to be of good behaviour if set free.

Two of them, a boy and a girl, who said they were siblings (names withheld), said they were students. They revealed they were led into cultism by their friends.

Others who pleaded for forgiveness, were a girl and five other boys, who were also students of  undisclosed schools in the state.

The SPACS Commander, Bassey, said: "Parents pay more attention to pursuing money than their family and this gives the children the opportunity to join bad companies."

He urged community leaders and others to always inform the command of cultists and other criminal elements within their domain, assuring them that their identities would be treated with uttermost confidentiality.

The commander disclosed that they would be arraigned in court after investigation has been concluded.