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Three More PDP Governors Will Soon Defect — Fayose Predicts
Ayodele Fayose predicts three more PDP governors will defect soon, says Tinubu not to blame for crisis, accuses PDP leaders of killing their own party.
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has predicted that three additional governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will soon resign from the opposition party.
Fayose made the claim on Wednesday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, following the recent resignation of Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri from the PDP.
According to him, the party is fast collapsing under the weight of its internal crises and power struggles.
“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,” Fayose said.
The former governor accused some PDP governors of undermining the party’s stability through excessive ambition and control politics.
“They are largely killing the party because they want to control it. This is what happened in 2023,” he added.
‘Tinubu Not to Blame for PDP’s Collapse’
Fayose dismissed suggestions that President Bola Tinubu was coercing opposition governors to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), arguing instead that the PDP’s problems are self-inflicted.
“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.
He insisted that most of the defecting governors were motivated by personal interests and political survival, not presidential pressure.
“Those who killed the party know themselves,” Fayose said. “There is a difference between a former governor and a sitting governor.”
Although Fayose confirmed that he remains a card-carrying member of the PDP, he distanced himself from efforts to resolve the party’s crisis, saying current leaders must take responsibility for the decline.
“I’m not the one to fix the PDP. The people leading it today must own up and accept their role in what has become of the party,” he said.
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