Hours After PDP’s Defeat In Presidential Election, Former Governor Dumps Party In Southern Nigeria (PHOTO)

Hours After PDP’s Defeat In Presidential Election, Former Governor Dumps Party In Southern Nigeria (PHOTO)

Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday, as well as his retirement from partisan politics.

This comes just hours after his party, the PDP, was defeated in the presidential election by the All Progressives Congress.

Fayose, who announced his resignation while appearing as a guest on ARISE TV, revealed that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, turned down an offer of one term in office in order to gain the support of the G5 governors.

Atiku lost the G5 governors’ states to Tinubu of the APC, who won three, and Obi of the Labour Party, who won two.

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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.

“They told his excellency to make his official announcement, not that he should hand it over to any member of the G-5. That you are going to spend four years and at that time you will be 80 years, all the people surrounding him disagree, that they can’t say such, when he becomes President he will say it, who does that?

Further, Fayose blamed the party’s electoral failure on the party’s National Chairman, Iyiorcha Ayu.

He urged the party to accept defeat, alleging that it is funding protests against the election results.

“This Ayu was the one who led Atiku to the gutters. They took him to the gutters. You see when a man cannot come out. At 80 what does he want to do after?