VIDEO: Ayodele Fayose – “Planning To Unseat Tinubu Is Like Daydreaming”
Ayodele Fayose – “Planning To Unseat Tinubu Is Like Daydreaming”
Ayodele Fayose, a former governor of Ekiti State, believes that people plotting to revoke Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election as president are just daydreaming.
The 2023 presidential election is finished, and a winner has been declared, according to Fayose, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday. He said that anyone who did not win on the field should be aware that the winner would not stand by and let their triumph be overturned in court.
“Anyone who claims that they would unseat Ahmed Bola Tinubu is daydreaming; the election has passed, so stop living in your own nightmare.
“when you win somebody in Nigerian politics, let me tell you, it is better to win on the field, this one you are talking about is an afterthought, after launch.
“When you are shouting court, the other people will be looking at you to go and take over the court ahead of them?” Fayose asked rhetorically.
“In America, the former president is still saying he was rigged. He who comes to equity must have clean hands. Today, in Nigeria, that election has come and gone but you are at liberty to go to court.”
The former governor explained that in the build up to polls, members of Integrity Group — comprising five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and other party chieftains — were asked to support a southern presidential candidate in their different states.
Stressing that he has no regrets neither will he apologize for supporting Tinubu, Fayose said there was a directive for those in the Integrity Group to support a southern candidate and while those from the South East and South South chose to support Peter Obi of the Labour Party, he chose to side with Asiwaju who is from his region the South West.
Fayose said he is not desperate for any appointment, adding the he is somebody who will not “cringe because of a piece of meal” and will never move to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Many people in Nigeria have been confronted with what they have said at different times and they either recant or say something new. I stand here to tell you that I will never be a member of the APC,” he noted.
“I am not in politics for what it is anymore. I have been given a fair opportunity to lead Ekiti two times and defeated two incumbents.
“Nigeria is not a country we now take for granted. You will see that by the outcome of this election that a lot of people were displaced as a result of taking people for granted.”
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on March 1, declared Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
However, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP have approached the election tribunal to challenge the victory of Tinubu.
