Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has vowed not to step down from his 2023 presidential ambition.
Gatekeepers News reports that Fayose made this vow hours after he obtained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s N40 million Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for the 2023 presidential election.
The former Governor while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today lamented that the consensus mode of election is undemocratic and will only rob eligible candidates like himself of the opportunity of contesting which he deserves.
Fayose said, “They said they want all of us to come and do consensus. I don’t know about them but I have taken a form today and I am not going to step down.
“Do you know the mind of Nigerians? Do you know who they want? I will go to that election and I won’t step down. Any meeting or anywhere they talk about consensus, as good as that language looks, it is undemocratic,” he said.
On Wednesday, Fayose stormed the National Secretariat of the PDP in Abuja to purchase the presidential form.
This makes the former Governor the first aspirant to obtain the party’s presidential form from the southwest ahead of the party’s primaries.
