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Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose lacks honour and is unable to spell the word “politics,” according to Babafemi Ojudu, a former Special Adviser on Political Matters to former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ojudu said this as he described how he defeated Fayose in the 2011 Ekiti State senate race.

He claimed that because Fayose bought votes and the people of Ekiti State were starving, he was able to become governor after being impeached.

This was revealed by the former presidential aide Thursday morning in a conversation with Edmund Obilo on his State Affairs podcast.

Ojudu added that even though Fayose had the financial means to conduct the election, he still won 68,000 votes to the former governor’s 28,000.

According to Ojudu: “Fayose has no honour now, he is a man of dishonour, he became governor again because people are hungry, vote for a pot of soup and N5000, everybody will vote in an environment of poverty.

“I have been the only one who defeated him in an election; he stood against me during the Senate election, he had 28,000 votes and I had 68,000 votes.

“This is also a story of how I defeated him, he had the money to spend but I didn’t have the money to spend.

“Then, a radio station organized a debate between me and him which was actually an unfair competition. When we got there, I went in my Agbada while he came in a Tee shirt and jeans.

“As soon as he entered, I saw an inscription on that Tee-shirt “Politics is Serious Business” and I saw that politics was wrongly spelt.

“I was happy that I had this guy today. I called my photographer, ‘please snap his chest, which he did,’ we went on and he accused me of all sorts of things.

“He called me a road side journalist and I was just waiting. After we had thrown all kinds of barbs at each other, the moderator said ‘we have come to the end of the debate but I will give you two minutes each. Who is going to start?’

“And I said my governor must start, he thought I was actually being civil but I needed to talk last so that he would have no reply.

“When he finished, I said ‘today is my saddest day because I don’t know what to tell my 13-year-old daughter when I get back home – that the man who was my governor, who wants to go and represent Ekiti in the Senate does not know how to spell politics.

“People at home, I’m calling your attention to the chest of this former governor of yours who wants to go to the Senate and can’t spell politics – are we going to continue having illiterates in power? He just put his hands on his chest and ran out of the studio, that was a killer punch.”

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