I worked against Atiku, PDP in last elections – Fayose

I worked against Atiku, PDP in last elections – Fayose

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has confessed working against his party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the February 25, 2023 election.
The chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said he worked for the victory of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, in the last general elections.

He however said he would not accept any ministerial appointment from President Tinubu.

“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.
“The reality is that I worked for Asiwaju (Tinubu). He is a respectable person from the South-West.’
He expressed his grievances with the PDP, saying the party suspended him and his son, Oluwajomiloju, despite that he has “suffered tremendously for PDP”.
“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-Ekiti 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, from Adamawa State in North-East Nigeria.
Fayose argued 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.
He vowed to sue the PDP if the party takes disciplinary actions against him for supporting Tinubu in the last elections.
“If PDP take action against me, I will take them to court,” the ex-governor stated. “If anybody suppresses my voice, I will say things more than this.”
Fayose further stated that his recent visit to the President was not connected to his court case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
“Tinubu has no power to stop EFCC trial,” he said.

He urged Tinubu to give 40 per cent of his cabinet members to people above 60 years of age, 30 per cent to women and 30 per cent to young people.