I will never join APC – Fayose

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Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has vowed never to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) despite the crisis in South West Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The PDP in the South West are faced with a crises between the faction of the former Ekiti State Governor and the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, which raised fears that Fayose could leave the party.

However, he stated that he will never leave the opposition party, disclosing that he has been pressured in the past by the national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, to abandon the PDP but he declined.

Fayose, in an interview on Saturday, said that President Muhammadu Buhari had killed the APC, adding that he agrees with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who compared the ruling party to cancer.

According to him, as a member of the PDP, he backed Governor Kayode Fayemi’s governorship ambition in the 2009 Ekiti governorship election and even campaigned for him because he wanted the PDP nominee, former governor Segun Oni, to be thrown out of office because he made life a living hell for him.

He said, “I want to quote Governor Wike. He said somebody has malaria, you want to dash him cancer. That is the same way I will represent it. APC is a cancer to the nation, even to the people that brought the party to power.”

“I listened to Pastor Tunde Bakare on television few days ago. Those things coming from Pastor Bakare does not represent the man supporting Buhari since 2011. The same applies to many of them, even in Northern Nigeria. When the head is sick, the whole body is in trouble. President Buhari has destroyed that party.

“Let me say it very clearly. I am not in APC, I will never be in APC and even if I get angry inside this PDP, we will fight it together and I will still remain in this party. What will make me leave this PDP, that means I have retired from politics.

“In 2009, I publicly backed Governor (Kayode) Fayemi. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu went out of his way to invite me to the APC, but I declined. If I join the APC in Ekiti, who will be my leader? Is this the Fayemi we’re referring to?

“Will it be Niyi Adebayo, the former governor? Yes, before me, Adebayo was governor. He was governor in 1999, and I was governor in 2003, but the truth is that it’s better for them to stay in their path, and I’ll stay in mine as well.”

“Former governor Segun Oni gave me horror when he was in office as governor and to show him that the world is not about him, I supported Fayemi then in the governorship election”.

“Let me say to you, I am a clear character. What benefit will I derive by joining APC? Most of the governors today preserve themselves by clinging with Buhari before 2019. I never did that. in Nigeria today, I am one of the people that APC will not forget in their life”.

“I stood my ground against APC not because I hate anybody but because what I was saying about them has played out overtime. I am not somebody who will say what he is not convinced about”.

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