I’m not going to be insulting Atiku or Tinubu – Fayose  

Former Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has declared that despite to the lingering impasse in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the  preparations for 2023 elections, he will not insult the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.  Fayose also said that he will not insult the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, either, to show he is not supporting him as his Yoruba kinsman. He noted that some northern APC governors have disagreement with President Muhammadu Buhari but they don’t come to the open to insult the president.

Fayose is in the alliance of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and four other PDP governors agitating for the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu.

Fayose had declared: “Let me tell you: if people are expecting me to abuse Tinubu to show that I am not supporting him, I would not do that.

“If the only way to demonstrate to everybody that I am Bola Tinubu’s enemy is to come out as a Yoruba man and insult Bola Tinubu, I will never do it.

“Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu are over 70 years old leaders, why were they sitting together to rub minds and did not carry cutlasses against it each other? Count me out of that.

“I am not going to be insulting Atiku,” Fayose insisted. “I am not going to be insulting Tinubu.”