Ex-Gov, Fayose reportedly sacks aide, Anifowose for voting Atiku during PDP primary

Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, have reportedly sacked his Personal Assistant Admin, Special Duties and former Special Assistant on Stomach Infrastructure, Sunday Anifowose, popularly known as Sunshine, for voting
former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the Saturday’s Peoples Democratic Party Primaries.

WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that Atiku clinched the PDP presidential ticket after polling 371 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, who scored 237 votes at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja.

Fayose had in March 2022 called for support for Wike’s presidential ambition, describing him as a “man with exemplary character.”

“As an elder statesman, I know what is right and just. I am here as his brother, his friend, to a man with exemplary character. For Governor Wike, what you see is what you get,” Fayose said in Port Harcourt when a group of PDP chieftains, said to be Wike’s friends, presented the party presidential nomination form to the governor.

According to SaharaReporter, a source said that Fayose is upset and angry with some delegates from Ekiti who voted for Atiku, against his choice.

Fayose was said to have sent a SOS message to some of his core supporters that Sunday (Sunshine) should never be seen close to his NTS Hotel at Ado Ekiti henceforth, for daring to go against his directive.

“Fayose is still making his findings to know the number of delegates from Ekiti that flouted his order, but since Sunshine’s vote for Atiku is clearly confirmed, Fayose has vowed to deal with him seriously for such action, despite the immediate verbal molestation and harassment of Sunshine on Saturday evening by Fayose at the Abuja hotel, where the state delegates were lodged,” a source told SaharaReporters.

Another source while confirming the development said Fayose would not spare Sunshine and others who voted for Atiku against Wike.

“They disgraced Fayose, and they will be punished severely for the disrespect,” the source said.

Meanwhile, SaharaReporters was told that Sunday had started moving his belongings out of Fayose’s hotel at GRA, Onigaari, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state on Tuesday’s morning.

Sunday Anifowose, who has been with Fayose for years, had in July 2017 led a programme tagged stomach infrastructure train in Fayose’s administration.