A former governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose said he will support the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar on the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
Fayose made this commitment while speaking in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Fayose said he will not resort to insulting the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu even though they are in different camps ahead of next year’s election.
He said, “Let me tell you: if people are expecting me to abuse Tinubu to show that I am not supporting him, I would not do that.”
Fayose, an ally of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state, noted that despite the political differences some northern governors or politicians have with President Muhammadu Buhari, they don’t resort to abuses.
He described Tinubu as a Yoruba leader and as such, he won’t descend to insulting the former Lagos State governor even though they are of different camps. Fayose said he respects Atiku Abubakar of the PDP the same way as the APC chieftain.
He said, “If the only way to demonstrate to everybody that I am Bola Tinubu’s enemy is to come out as a Yoruba man and insult Bola Tinubu, I will never do it,” he added.
