Fayose Announces Resignation From PDP

Anastasia Okechukwu Reporting 

Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti State, has announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Fayose made his resignation announcement yesterday while being a guest on an ARISE News program.

Under the PDP ticket, Fayose presided over Ekiti State as governor from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2015.

However, his decision to leave the party appears to be related to what he believes to be intractable divisions inside the PDP, that, in his opinion, have split the party.

The former governor, who asserted that over the years, he had fought for the party’s interests, attributed the PDP’s defeat in the presidential election to the party’s leadership.

He claimed that the PDP was already fractured before the election due to the large number of candidates who felt they had been duped by the party’s leadership and Atiku Abubakar’s failure to reach an agreement with the G-5 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.

He said, “I warned Atiku that the problem will consume PDP. I told him there was danger ahead.” He added that the G-5 governors demanded that Atiku makes an official announcement to run for only one term and hand over to any member in the South but Ayu, was leading Atiku to Golgotha.

He continued, “I warned Labour Party’s candidate and second runner up in the presidential polls, Peter Obi to run away from the PDP as the current ovation for the opposition has nothing to do with 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 the man of the moment, stressing that Obi’s victory in Lagos has proved that things are no longer the same.

He argued that for Obi to win in Lagos shows the process was so transparent and as such the outcome of the election should be accepted by all.