Fayose floats presidential campaign
The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has abandoned his desire to seek re-election in 2018.
In its place, he has launched his presidential campaign on Facebook.
Fayose had initially said he would
approach the Supreme Court to determine his eligibility to run again for
the office of governor of his state because of his inability to
complete his first term in office.
The governor, whose impeachment then had
been declared null and void by the Supreme Court, had said there was
need to finish his first four years in office.
Fayose, who is the chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, was one of the two governors
in the party who spoke vehemently against the continued stay in office
of the former National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff.
Ironically, the governor was also among
the few governors who brought the former governor of Borno State to the
office of the national chairman of the former ruling party.
The PDP had zoned the position of the party’s presidential candidate to the northern part of the country.
It is, however, not clear if the party
would go back on this, but analysts believed that Fayose could be
positioning himself for the position of running mate for the party’s
presidential candidate.
The three organs of the party, which are
the Expanded National Caucus, Board of Trustees and the National
Executive Committee, met in Abuja in Monday. The meeting continues on
Tuesday (today).
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