{"id":21690,"date":"2020-02-21T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=21690"},"modified":"2020-02-21T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:47:17","slug":"apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us","title":{"rendered":"APC to Fayose: You\u2019re not qualified to join us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has advised a former governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose, to perish the thought of defecting to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Ade Ajayi, said this in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the party was not a dumping ground \u201cfor failed politicians,\u201d adding that Fayose was not wanted in the party because of his antecedents.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement he signed. Ajayi described the APC as \u201ca disciplined, refined and integrity-inclined type which would not tolerate people like Fayose,\u201d adding that \u201cFayose is not qualified to be a member of the APC in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party, which was reacting to a statement allegedly credited to Fayose to the effect that he would defect to the APC if his ordained Peoples Democratic Party state chairmanship aspirant failed in his bid for the job.<\/p>\n<p>To this, Ajayi said, \u201cWe will not welcome him to the great and decent family in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is better he stays back in his PDP to get it more destroyed instead of coming to a principled, disciplined, transparent, law-abiding and organised party like the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ekiti APC members know the people behind the masquerade and thereby warn people like Fayose not to turn the APC to a dumping ground where they can defect to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has advised a former governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose, to perish the thought of defecting to the APC. The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Ade Ajayi, said this in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday. He said the party was not a dumping ground \u201cfor failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,72,224],"class_list":["post-21690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-ekiti-state","tag-fayose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APC to Fayose: You\u2019re not qualified to join us - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has advised a former governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose, to perish the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC to Fayose: You\u2019re not qualified to join us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has advised a former governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose, to perish the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-21T14:47:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/APC-5da493757482c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1081\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"APC to Fayose: You\u2019re not qualified to join us\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-21T14:47:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/APC-5da493757482c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"EKITI STATE\",\"Fayose\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-to-fayose-youre-not-qualified-to-join-us\",\"name\":\"APC to Fayose: You\u2019re not qualified to join us - 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