Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has opposed the Peoples Democratic Partý’s position regarding the credibility of the All Progressives Congress’s choice of candidates for the Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections.

Olisa Metuh, PDP’s spokesperson, in a press briefing on Wednesday, had stated that APC’s fielding of former Governors Timipre Sylva and Abubakar Audu as its flag-bearers in Bayelsa and Kogi states, was inappropriate.

Although Metuh said his party did no such thing in its 16 years in power, he made an exception in Governor Fayose’s case describing it as “politically motivated”.

Metuh further argued that in other climes, political parties take exception to candidates with corruption charges, adding that the PDP was “compiling a list of all APC governors-elect and candidates that are in court facing corruption charges” and would make the list available to Nigerians.

“We have never fielded any candidate facing corruption charge as governor,” he said.

“Elsewhere, political parties take exception to fielding people with corruption charges except if politically motivated like in the case of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state.

“No party has ever fielded corrupt individuals for political offices like the APC.”

Fayose, however, played the politics card by declaring Sylva and Audu qualified to contest the election until they are proven guilty of the allegations of corruption.

Opposing Metuh’s standpoint, Fayose, in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti, said: “I wish to state clearly that Alhaji Abubakar Audu has the right to contest,”

Fayose denied ever saying that the two candidates were not qualified to contest for the elections claiming the statement was not made by him.

“That statement that he cannot contest was not made by me. What I said in Lokoja has nothing to do with Alhaji Audu and I am not contesting his eligibility,”

‎”Alhaji Audu is my former colleague and I have a lot of respect for him. In law, every man is assumed innocent until proven otherwise by a law court.

“I equally went through a similar experience, I couldn’t have made such comment.”

Janeth J