Fayose: Atiku should no longer contest elections, Obi better positioned to unseat Tinubu
by Hassan Muaz · The Eagle OnlineA former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has told former Vice President Atiku Abubakar not to contest elections in Nigeria again, adding that the candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, was better positioned to unseat the All Progressives Congress, which produced President Bola Tinubu, from power.
The controversial former governor of Ekiti State made his views known on Sunday on a Channels Television programme: “Sunday Politics.”
Fayose said: “I am sure at this stage, with all due respect to him, he should rather stay away from the politics of contesting elections again.
“By the time Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu) will finish, Atiku Abubakar will probably be 80 or 81.
“So what will be the attraction?
“We should leave the stage when the ovation is loudest.
“I respect him and I think Nigerians are craving for a younger generation than ever before.
“So on what basis will Atiku come and contest again?”
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Fayose, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, who reviewed the chances of his party successfully challenging the APC in upcoming elections, said the structures that once made his party great have collapsed and that Obi has become a more recognisable figure in the fight to oust the current administration.
He said: “As I always say, we can defeat the APC.
“But when we don’t have a party again how can we defeat them?
“When we complain about the APC and we don’t have a party and you can say you will do this and that, but Obi is the voice of the opposition now.
“The press will call Obi than call the PDP and when the Publicity Secretary is suspending people and vice-versa.
“So where is the party?”
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