Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose remarked that governors on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform prefer President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Party (APC) over their own party’s former presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Fayose made the statement while appearing on Channels TV’s Politics Today, when he branded Atiku’s coalition proposal as a “dead horse.”
He stated that the PDP Governors’ Forum in Ibadan, Oyo State, clearly indicated that they do not support Atiku.
According to Fayose: “The coalition is a dead horse ab initio. Tell me one positive person that has given his words in support of this coalition.”
He continued: “The governors’ stance in Ibadan is to tell Atiku that we are not with you, we are going nowhere, we have our own identity.
“That coalition is just the imagination of people trying to bring it to fruition. It’s a waste of time. The governors are fighting for their own survival, and they don’t need an Atiku to fight for their survival.
“In actual fact, most of them prefer a Tinubu for their survival than an Atiku. Don’t let us deceive and fool ourselves; there is nothing called coalition. Obi can’t go to Atiku; Atiku can’t go to Obi.
“You see the rate at which people are decamping from PDP. How many people are defecting from APC? Something is fundamentally wrong in PDP that needs to be fixed.”
