Fayose said he warned the second runner-up in the presidential polls, Peter Obi, to “run away from the PDP”.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Ex-governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, on Wednesday said he would be staying off the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following the party’s loss at the presidential poll.
Fayose, who was Ekiti governor on the platform of the PDP, stated this during an appearance on ARISE News.
He said his decision to quit the party is connected with perceived irreconcilable differences in the PDP, which according to him, has fractured the party.
He said: “Let me say this, from today I stay off PDP. In party politics there are certain facts you must be able to speak. I am 62 and I can’t, at this age, begin lying. When something is wrong with your family, confess.”
Fayose, who claimed to have fought for the interest of the party over the years, blamed the loss of the PDP in the presidential election on the leadership of the party.
The former governor was part of PDP stakeholders who wanted a southern presidential candidate and later called for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.
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According to him, PDP was already fractured before the election, with so many aggrieved aspirants who were allegedly swindled by the leadership of the party on one hand and the inability of the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to reach an agreement with the aggrieved G5 governors.
Fayose traced the problem of the PDP to the North-West zonal congress which he said was rigged against Rabiu Kwankwaso in favour of Aminu Tambuwal that led to the latter leaving the party.
“I warned Atiku that the problem will consume PDP. I told him there was danger ahead,” he said, adding that the G5 governors demanded that Atiku should make an official announcement to run for only one term and hand over to a southerner but “Ayu was leading Atiku to Golgotha.”
Fayose said he warned the second runner-up in the presidential polls, Peter Obi, to “run away from the PDP”.
According to him, if the PDP had believed in Obi, they should have given him the party’s ticket.
He saluted Obi’s courage for being able to defeat the likes of Tinubu in Lagos, describing him as “a phenomenon” and “the man of the moment,” stressing that Obi’s victory in Lagos has proven that things are no longer the same.