Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has said that Presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar promised to make Governor, Nyesom Wike his Vice, and that Wike never wanted to be to be VP.
Fayose, during an interview with PREMIUM TIMES, said the former Vice President ignored the recommendation of the committee set up to pick his running mate.
According to him, Wike has been badly injured, and that they will remain with him, as whatever he directs them to do, that is what they would do.
Fayose also said Wike cannot support Atiku, because it is the turn of the South to be President, after President Muhammadu Buhari.
He revealed that they would abandon Wike if he chooses to support, Atiku Abubakar.
Part of his statement reads,
Wike will never say we should support Atiku.Wike cannot come out to say he is supporting Atiku. I dare him to say so; because he knows that whatever he says will haunt him forever. If Wike supports Atiku, we will abandon him.
Wike never said he wanted to be VP, but when Atiku visited him, he was the one who said, ‘I want you to be my VP’. He said that to Wike. If that then changes, is Wike not supposed to be told? Is he not supposed to know?
“PDP set up a committee to recommend a running mate for the candidate and the committee voted and picked Wike, but they didn’t comply with the recommendation of the committee.”
If the party is now a one-man show, we will show them that we can resist it. We are with Wike 100 per cent.
When they need Wike’s money and Wike’s support, they will say, ‘Wike is good enough’. Wike has been injured, but we will remain with him. Whatever he does is what we would do; wherever he asks us to go is where we will go.
