Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has attributed the defeat of the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku to alleged uncompromising stance of the ex-Vice President.
Fayose made this claim on Wednesday when he featured on ARISE TV, an occasion he used to announce his resignation from the PDP and his quitting partisan politics entirely.
The ex-governor put Atiku’s defeat down to allegation that he(Atiku) refused the G-5’s condition to use only one term of four years if elected.
His actual words, “I was invited by His Excellency Atiku Abubakar to a hotel in Lagos. I told him four things, that there were four demands they made of you. One, you are seventy-six as of last year. The G-5 said, you are already a candidate, you can’t abort a child that has been given birth to.
“But let us go back and tell the Southerners that you will spend four years so that it would not look like it will be eight to eight years back to back for the North because Buhari is leaving and he is representing the North irrespective of the party.
“They told his excellency to make his official announcement, not that he should hand it over to any member of the G-5. That you are going to spend four years and at that time you will be 80 years, all the people surrounding him disagree, that they can’t say such, when he becomes President he will say it, who does that?”
