Former Governor Ayo Fayose has fired back at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar after a comment by one of his aides triggered a war of words over Governor Seyi Makinde’s recent visit to Atiku in Minna.
In a personally signed statement, Fayose gave Atiku 48 hours to publicly disown remarks made by his media aide, Paul Ibe—or risk the release of fresh details about what transpired during the meeting. Fayose alleged that Makinde had gone to Minna to seek consideration as Atiku’s running mate for the 2027 election, a precondition to joining the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
“I saw the response of one Paul Ibe … to my release on what transpired at his meeting in Minna … and I can’t but be amused,” Fayose said. “Because of my respect for Atiku, I will want to assume that he did not authorise the press statement and I will expect that after seeing it, he will within 48 hours, cause a rebuttal to be issued on it.”
He warned that failure to do so would force him to “spill more beans (the facilitators and executioners) of the Minna meeting, particularly what was said about Wike.” Fayose added, “Till then, we keep our gunpowder dry.”
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
