Fayose: “May I state clearly that I will be seeking the ticket of the PDP to contest the next presidential election.”
By Emma Ogbuehi
The growing ranks of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members fighting for the presidential ticket of the main opposition party was further swelled on Thursday as former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, threw his hat into the ring.
Fayose, two-term governor of Ekiti disclosed his intention to vie for the ticket in a statement in Lagos.
“May I also state clearly that I will be seeking the ticket of the PDP to contest the next presidential election,” he said.
If he follows through with his pronouncement by picking the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms, Fayose will be the 14th aspirant to do so.
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Former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, picked the forms on Thursday.
Before him, former Senate President, a frontline aspirant, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, had equally bought the forms.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, accomplished technocrat, Sam Ohuabunwa, erstwhile Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, had also picked the forms.
Meanwhile, Fayose has denied endorsing the candidature of Peter Obi as was reported in a section of the media.
Fayose said the report credited to him that he had endorsed Obi and zoning of the Presidency to the Southeast was false.
He said: “No doubt, I have great respect for Peter Obi as a leader and I respect his aspiration, but at no point did I endorse his presidential ambition or that the presidency be zoned to the Southeast.
“Rather, my take is that the presidency be zoned to the Southern part of Nigeria.”
