Fayose vows not to step down for Atiku, others in race for 2023 PDP ticket

Ayodele Fayose, the former Governor of Ekiti State and a presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, has stated that he will not step down for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President Bukola Saraki, or any other consensus presidential candidate agreed upon by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

On Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ show on Wednesday, Fayose claimed that the concept of consensus is undemocratic.

He added that both Atiku and Saraki were All Progressives Congress (APC) runaway politicians who returned to the PDP when things became tough in the APC.

Fayose chastised Atiku and Saraki for pursuing the PDP’s single presidential ticket in 2023 after switching from one party to the other.

According to the former governor, the APC would not have won the presidential election if Atiku and Saraki had stayed in the PDP in 2015 and supported former President Goodluck Jonathan despite his inadequacies.

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Saraki and Atiku returned to the PDP merely because they did not succeed in the APC, and he wondered if they would have returned if they had been Presidents while in the APC.

Fayose stated that in 2023, it will be the turn of the South to run Nigeria, rather than another northern president, to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari of Katsina State in Nigeria’s terror-ravaged North-West zone, whose two-term term ends in May 2023.

The ex-Ekiti governor said, “I saw those going around for consensus. Who will step down for who? You ask me to step down? I won’t step down.

“They said they want all of us to come to a consensus. I have taken form today; I am not going to step down. Who knows if it is me Nigerians want to vote for? Do you know the minds of Nigerians?

“I will go to that election; I won’t step down. Any meeting that they want to talk about consensus, as good as that language looks good, it is undemocratic.”

“Let them choose me (as consensus), that is the only solution,” Fayose added.