Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said that the ex vice president, Atiku Abubakar and Bukola Saraki, the ex president of the Senate doesn’t deserve the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
According to Fayose, the duo of Atiku and Saraki were responsible for the loss of the party in 2015 and wondered if the defectors would have come back to the the party if they had become president in the All Progressives Congress, APC.
“If some of them had become president in APC, would they come back? Would Senator Bukola Saraki come back?”
Fayose, who has joined the presidential contest under the PDP, said he would not step down for any PDP aspirants.
“Who knows if it’s me (that) Nigerians want to vote for, sir?” he reasoned during an interview on Channels TV on Wednesday, disclosing that he had already purchased the presidential nomination form.
“They said they want all of us to come and do consensus. I don’t know about them, oh. But I have taken the form today,” said Mr Fayose.
Pointing out his disinterest in a consensus PDP candidate, Mr Fayose stated, “Who will step down for who? You ask me to step down. I won’t step down, oh.”
He also revealed that he did not consider Messrs Abubakar and Saraki as heavyweight politicians, particularly in the North or their states.
Mr Fayose disagreed that certain politicians and regions command a large number of votes, especially in the North. The ex-governor citing 2019 polls, noted that PDP presidential flag bearer, Mr Atiku won by a stroke of luck in Adamawa.
“Let us look at the number from the states from the aspirants in question. Let me come from our respectable leader, Atiku Abubakar. He won in Adamawa by less than 20,000 votes,” said Mr Fayose.
Of the ex-Senate president, he explained, “Let us go to Bukola Saraki in Kwara. We actually lost there.” He added, “Let us sit back and look at the figures oh when somebody is saying the person that can win.”
When reminded of his failure to deliver Ekiti to PDP at the 2019 presidential poll, Mr Fayose stressed it was difficult to deliver any state when the sitting governor belonged to another party.
“Yes, we lost. The issue largely is that when a sitting governor is there, it’s not as easy as you expect,” he claimed.
