Fayose dumps PDP, quits partisan politics

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and quit partisan politics.

Speaking in an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday, Fayose said beginning from today, he is staying away from the PDP.

He said he is 62 years and that it was time to quit partisan politics

“I say it here, from today, I step aside because I must be talking like a leader in this country,” he said.

Fayose said he had issued on his Twitter handle even in the month of January or December, saying that he warned the PDP about this problem, and that if it was not resolved would consume the 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,” he said.

He added that Atiku was told to announce officially to the aggrieved PDP governors that he would only spend one term of four years in office.

He said all the people surrounding him disagree, that they could not say such and that when he became President, he would say it.

“Who does that? He asked.

He lashed out at the PDP’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu for leading the party to failure in the presidential election in Nigeria.

“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?” He asked.