Mr. Ayodele Fayose who is a former Governor of Ekiti State, has opened up on how he worked against his party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 25th February 2023 election.
Fayose, who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), revealed that he worked against Atiku ‘100%’ because the ‘PDP was not fair to him’.
The PDP Chieftain said he worked for the victory of the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, in Ekiti in the last general elections.
‘I never worked for PDP during the last election. I cannot work for two people at the same time,’ he said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York.
‘The reality is that I worked for Asiwaju (Tinubu). He is a respectable person from the South-West. It is the time of the South.’
Fayose, who met the President at Aso Villa in Abuja, on Thursday, July 6, 2023, expressed his grievances with the PDP, saying that the party suspended him and his son, Oluwajomiloju, despite that he has ‘suffered tremendously for PDP’.
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‘The same PDP, because I said it was the turn of the South, removed my son, suspended my son, expelled my son, suspended me. For a man that has suffered tremendously for PDP?’ he queried.
The ex-governor, and member of an aggrieved group within the PDP known as the G5 or the Integrity Group, said his party played games with Nigerians by giving its presidential ticket to Atiku, an ex-Vice President who is from Adamawa State in North-East Nigeria.
Fayose claimed that with the expiration of the two-term tenure of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also from the North, a Southern Nigerian should be the next President of the country.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that in the 2023 presidential election, Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State trounced Atiku in Fayose’s Ekiti State. Tinubu won in all 16 Local Government Areas of the state.
Tinubu also won in 11 other states out of Nigeria’s 36 states. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes almost two million votes more than Atiku, who polled 6,984,520 votes, and the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who, secured 6,101,533 votes.