Former Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) barely 24 hours after the party lost the presidential election.
Fayose, who also said he’ll quit partisan politics, announced his resignation while appearing as a guest on ARISE TV.
He alleged the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar rejected the offer of one term in office to get the G5 Governors’ support.
Announcing his resignation, Fayose said: “From today, I stay off PDP.”
When asked if that was a resignation, he said, “Let me put it this way, in party politics. Because there are certain facts. I am 62.
“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.
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