Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose stated that governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, prefer President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Alliance, APC, to their own party’s former presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Fayose made the remark while featuring on Channels TV’s Politics Today, where he described the coalition proposed by Atiku as a “dead horse.”
He noted that the stance of the PDP Governors’ Forum in Ibadan, Oyo State, sent a clear message that they are not aligned with 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.”
