2023: Fayose Blasts Atiku, Saraki Over Presidential Ambition

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayode Fayose, has slammed several presidential hopefuls under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and pledged to never step down for anybody.

Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and former Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki were chastised by Fayose for wanting the PDP’s sole ticket for the 2023 election.

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 backed former President Goodluck Jonathan despite his inadequacies.

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He pointed out that Saraki and Atiku returned to the PDP simply because they did not succeed in the APC, wondering if they would have come back to the PDP if they had become Presidents while in the APC.

Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, on Wednesday, the former governor, said, “Let me take for example our respectable leader, His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, he won in Adamawa with less than 20,000 votes [in 2019].”

“Go to Sokoto, what’s the voting difference? Let us go to Bukola Saraki in Kwara, we actually lost there. Let us sit back and look at figures.

“This amalgamation of people trying to…at the end of the day it backfired. Jonathan, despite his flaws, we had supported him and some of our leaders didn’t go to APC …if some of them had become Presidents in Abuja would they come back? Will Atiku come back? Would Bukola Saraki have come back?

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“When the journey was rough and bad, they ran back. Today, because our party is a party that tries bringing people together, we must not forget history.

“Today, I’m glad they are challenging people jumping from one party to the other, those are the ideologies that are missing,” he added.

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