ABUJA – A former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has claimed that three more governors elected on the platform of the PDP would soon dump the opposition party.
Fayose made the claim while speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, following the resignation of Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri, from the PDP.
According to him, the opposition party may soon be left with only five governors as internal crises continue to plague its ranks.
He said:”Let me tell you, there are three more governors that will leave soon. There will be five remaining. The five remaining, one of them will struggle to catch the ticket, and they all know that the ticket is an ordinary tissue paper.
“They are largely killing the party because they want to control it. This is what happened in 2023.”
Fayose dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu had been coercing opposition governors to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
He argued that most of the defecting governors were acting out of self-interest and political calculation.
“President Tinubu should not be blamed for PDP’s problems. The PDP is sick and remains perpetually sick without a cure in view,” he stated.
The former governor maintained that the crisis within the PDP is the result of internal sabotage by some of its leaders.
