Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Friday disclosed that President Bola Tinubu once asked him to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, but he declined.
Fayose made this known while featuring on Channels
Television’s Politics Today.
The former governor noted that he has never hidden his
admiration for Tinubu, even during his tenure as governor.
According to Fayose: “Nigerians know where I belong every
time it comes to the issues of politics and our country.
“I recalled very well that the president asked that I should
come to APC and I said no.
“When the late Buhari seemed to be playing games, I was one
of the people who said that this APC will do this or that and the next thing
the now president did was to start dancing and singing.
“When I was a sitting governor I didn’t hide my respect and
support for Tinubu, I never did. I was upright, stood my grounds, I visited him
severally as a sitting governor and I recalled when he had a knee injury I went
there openly to say hello to him, he wasn’t president at the time, Buhari was
president of Nigeria then.
“I was part of the G-5, I wasn’t the only one at the time,
we had sitting governors, so it’s not whether I’m trying to find my feet, I was
very clear.
“When your kinsman wants to be president and he has
capacity, what should you do? You should fight him? You should throw him under
the bus? I have been like this.
“Go back to Ekiti, every former governor has their
homesteads and the governor is being supported by all the former governors
which is the first time in the history of this country.”
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