…Says, party too compromised to concentrate
Mr Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti State, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is still in crisis and too compromised in most State to face the 2027 general elections with the required and needed concentration expected of a political party.
He particularly said that the PDP has become a carcass, noting that taking into consideration the quality of leaders and people that have dumped the Party after his last comment, are huge enough, thereby turned the PDP into a carcass.
Fayose, who stated these while x-raying the PDP’s 101st National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, pointedly said that the party will come fourth in the 2027 general elections based on the fact that its structures have been compromised across the states.
The former Ekiti Governor who spoke when he featured on Channels Television programme; ‘Politics Today’ on Friday, July 25, 2025, said that the situation in the PDP is precarious and seriously messed up, stressing that managing it has become a serious and difficult issue.
In the words of Fayose; “I’m not somebody who hides, and I would never hide. Number 1, in the same PDP, the former Vice President had left, the vice presidential candidate had left, the governors had left, senators had left. So, even when you have a NEC or a convention, to where and to what end?
“The PDP will come forth in 2027. In most states, they are already compromised, they have eased out so many leaders. It is good for them,” he said.
Responding to a question that he was working against the interest of the PDP, Fayose said Nigerians know where he belongs, and he has never hidden his affection for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He further said; “Let us come out and be straightforward. Nigerians know where I belong at every time when it comes to issues about politics. When I was a sitting governor, I did not hide my support and respect for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I never did.
“I was upright and stood my ground. I visited him severally (sic) as a sitting governor. I recall when he had knee surgery, I went there openly to say ‘hello’ to him. He wasn’t president at the time; Muhammadu Buhari was the president of Nigeria,” he said.
Fayose disclosed that President Tinubu asked him to dump the PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), but he turned the offer down, saying that he was one of those that told Tinubu about the sinister moves within the APC during the late President Buhari’s presidency.
According to Fayose; “The President asked that I should come to APC, I said ‘no’. In fact, when late President Muhammadu Buhari seemed to be playing a game, I was one of the people who said to President Tinubu that the APC will do this, will do that and the next thing Tinubu did, was to start dancing and I started singing.
“I remembered, he told me that the shortest distance between the North and the South is the APC. So, I couldn’t understand at the time, because he told me that after President Muhammadu Buhari’s four years, anybody should be able to wait for another four years”.
He said that while zoning the presidential ticket of the PDP to the South would be good for the party, he however, added that Tinubu’s re-election is the shortest distance for power to return to the North.
“Zoning to the south by PDP is good for them, because today, President Bola Tinubu is the shortest distance for power to return to the North,” Fayose said.
Fayose also said that he was not bothered about being trusted within the PDP fold, adding that whether he is trusted or not, that is entirely the problem of the PDP and not his.
Fayose said he was not just finding his feet away from the PDP, as he pointedly said that he was a part of the G5, adding that President Tinubu is his kinsman, thus cannot throw him under the bus particularly against the backdrop of the fact that he has the capacity.
He said; “I was part of the G-5. I wasn’t the only one in the G-5 at the time. We have sitting governors. Governor Wike, Governor Makinde, myself, others were part of the G5. It’s not whether I’m trying to find my feet. I was very clear.
“When your kinsman wants to be president, and he has the capacity; so, what should you do? You should fight him? You should throw him under the bus? I’ve been like this, not in 2027 election,” Fayose stressed.
