•Star Actress, FOLUKE DARAMOLA’s Husband Opens Up
• KAYODE SALAKO Reveals What He Went Through
Labour Party Chieftain, Olukayode Ezekiel Salako is a very angry man right now. Salako who was formerly in APC, joined Labour Party last year and was the Chairman of the party for 5 months before he was forced to resign by forces within the party who discriminated against him because he was Yoruba and not Igbo. For the short period he headed the party in Lagos, all the Igbo big-wigs in the party sidelined him and even the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, practically ignored him. They called him all sorts of names. They accused him of being Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s mole in Labour Party. They didn’t trust him because his wife Foluke Daramola didn’t decamp with him to Labour Party. She stayed back in APC where her husband was before. There were those who didn’t trust the wife too because they couldn’t understand why husband and wife would be in different parties. They read meanings into it.
Why did he leave APC for Labour Party we asked him? “It is because I felt I wasn’t getting anything in APC. It was like the system didn’t see me. I received my political life under APC and realised that I was politically stagnant, so I decided to go and try my luck on the platform of Labour Party, by going to seek to contest the ticket for House of Reps”.
“So, I expected Foluke as my wife, to come with me because both of us were already on the side of same political divide, but she said she was not going with me to a political platform where she does not know anybody and that she was not certain about what she was going to meet there and do there”.
“So, I left her where she is and went. So, it got to point, that I was feeling very lonely and alone. And our operational activities were clashing, news started flying around. What created problems the more was the rivalry between Asiwaju & Peter Obi. All of these almost crashed my marriage to Foluke. We were not together. She was on her own, I was on my own all during the period. We decided to stay away from each other because I didn’t like the fact that she was not operating with me. She also didn’t like the fact that I was not operating with her.
But immediately after the Presidential-elections the 2 of us allowed our sense of reasoning to prevail and we decided that nothing should be strong enough, nothing should be big enough to make our 12 year old marriage to crash. Our togetherness of 12 years should be stronger than anything, for any pecuniary gains or reasons. So the 2 of us come together and for Presidency we didn’t work together but for the governorship elections the 2 of us worked on the same side of the divide. We both voted for Babajide Sanwo-Olu to continue to run the state, because he is a man of character. He is a man who has been good to our family, he has been good to us. He is a man I am convinced in his Capability and Capacity to continue to run Lagos progressively and develop and handle things”.
“I am happy that today that Foluke and I are still together. Our marriage is 12 years old, still progressively running. We are still 2 highly bounded 2 couples. And the days and years by His Grace shall continue to count.
Why didn’t Kayode Salako vote for the Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour? “I didn’t vote for Gbadebo because he didn’t want me to vote for him. He told the party point blank that he didn’t need to involve Olukayode Salako in his project.
He didn’t campaign to me to vote for him.
He didn’t reachout to me about his campaign and election project. He didn’t carry me along in all he did during the election. He even told all the members of the party that have been tagged Salako loyalists to stay off his project. He said he had his own people, who would work and vote for him.
So, there was no point voting where my vote was not needed, won’t be appreciated and valued. I wasn’t part of his project and so, I voted somewhere else. GRV never appreciated all I ever did around his project and so, I didn’t want to waste my efforts by voting for the wrong person in the last election, so I voted for Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, not Gbadebo.
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