Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose is without doubt a strong critic of the APC, but that hasn’t stopped his admiration of the party’s national leader, Bola Tinubu.
Fayose praised Tinubu as a worthy Nigerian leader; one who has a big role to play in the success of the Buhari administration.
The governor also dissociates himself from reports that he is gearing to be a running mate, to the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sherrif in the 2019 presidential election.
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In dismissing assertions of a 2019 presidential aspiration, he said: “Anybody flying the kite of Sheriff and Fayose is the deceit of the highest order. Again, even if it is the Senate, I am not going to contest. Nobody contests the office of the Vice President you can only become the Vice President of Nigeria if God wants you to be. May I make it expressly clear that if Ali Modu Sheriff wants to contest as president of Nigeria in 2019, I will not support him, I am a man known for my words of honour. We must operate based on principle if our country is to move forward.”
Describing himself as the most senior governor in Nigeria, Fayose said his attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari flowed from his sense of responsibility and not related to any 2019 presidential aspiration as alleged by critics.
” I am the most senior governor in Nigeria and if I were to be in a party like the APC, they will be celebrating me everyday. They (APC) know I am critical of the bad policies of the APC administration,” he said.
