Ayodele Fayose, a former governor of Ekiti State, said on Thursday that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s demands are not personal.
During an interview with Channels TV, Fayose discussed the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to Fayose, one of the demands of Governor Wike and his allies, known as the G-5 is that the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, not serve for more than a term if elected.
He stated that he supported Wike during the PDP presidential primary and advised the state’s 16 delegates to vote for him.
Fayose said;
Part of the demands of Wike and co is not personal. This is not for the public domain, but I have to bring it. And any person who says I am telling lies can come and deny it. I told the 16 delegates from Ekiti to vote for Wike.
If they give me one vote because of my name and Wike loses by one vote I will have betrayed trust. When I went to Wike and some of the governors that are supporting him, part of their demands is that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is 76 and that Atiku should do only one term. We can tell our people only one tenure, we can still tolerate it. So that it will not be eight years of the north and another eight years for the north.
The former Governor stated that the north could not rule the country for another eight years after President Muhammadu Buhari served two terms.
Fayose went on to say that they could live with the former Vice President ruling Nigeria for a while.
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