Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) “dead and beyond redemption,” predicting a fresh wave of defections from the crisis-ridden opposition party.
Speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Wednesday evening, Fayose said the party’s collapse was self-inflicted and not the handiwork of President Bola Tinubu, as some party members have claimed.
“President Tinubu should not be blamed for PDP’s problems. The PDP is sick and remains perpetually sick without a cure in view,” Fayose said.
“Those who killed the party know themselves. There is a difference between a former governor and a sitting governor.”
Fayose dismissed allegations that the presidency was behind the recent defections of Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri, and Enugu State governor, Peter Mbah, to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He insisted the two governors acted purely out of personal political calculations.
The former governor, who still holds a PDP membership card, revealed that three more governors were set to dump the opposition party, leaving it with just five.
“Let me tell you, there are three more governors that will leave soon. There will be five remaining. The five remaining, one of them will struggle to catch the ticket, and they all know that the ticket is an ordinary tissue paper,” he declared.
Fayose blamed the party’s steady decline on internal power tussles and ego clashes among its current leaders, accusing them of destroying the unity that once made the PDP a dominant political force.
“They are largely killing the party because they want to control it. This is what happened in 2023,” he added.
Despite being a founding member of the PDP, Fayose stated that he would not be part of any effort to revive the party, saying the rot within it predated the recent crises.