On Wednesday, Ayodele Fayose, the former governor of Ekiti State, declared that he was resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and retiring from partisan politics. This announcement came after the PDP lost the presidential election to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
During an appearance on ARISE TV, Fayose stated that PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, had declined the offer of a one-term presidency in order to secure the support of the G5 governors. The G5 governors’ states were won by APC’s Tinubu, who claimed three states, and by the Labour Party candidate, Obi, who took two states.
While discussing, Falana said “I say it here from today, I step aside because I must be talking like a leader in this country.”
“I had issued on my Twitter handle even in the month of January or December, I warned the PDP about this problem. if not resolved will consume this party, I told them there is Danger ahead. Watch it.
“I was invited by His Excellency Atiku Abubakar to a hotel in Lagos. I told him four things, that there were four demands they made of you. One, you are seventy-six as of last year. The G-5 said, you are already a candidate, you can’t abort a child that has been given birth to.
“But let us go back and tell the Southerners that you will spend four years so that it would not look like it will be eight to eight years back to back for the North because Buhari is leaving and he is representing the North irrespective of the party.
“They told his excellency to make his official announcement, not that he should hand it over to any member of the G-5. That you are going to spend four years and at that time you will be 80 years, all the people surrounding him disagree, that they can’t say such, when he becomes President he will say it, who does that?
In addition, Fayose accused Iyiorcha Ayu, the National Chairman of the PDP, of being responsible for the party’s defeat in the election. He urged the party to accept the results and stop sponsoring protests against the outcome of the election.
“This Ayu was the one who led Atiku to the gutters. They took him to the gutters. You see when a man cannot come out. At 80 what does he want to do after?
