Kelechi Esogwa-Amadi
As condemnation, controversy and anger continue to trail last Saturday’s presidential polls, a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has advised the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to distance himself from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which has Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate.
TPCN reports that the PDP and the Labour Party held a joint press conference on Tuesday calling for the cancellation of the presidential election on Saturday, 25th February 2023 over INEC’s failure to upload results to its server directly from polling units.
Obi left the PDP to run under Labour Party in this year’s general election. According to Fayose, the Labour Party presidential candidate’s relevance now depends on him dissociating and maintaining a distance from the PDP.
Fayose said: “Did they make effort to reconcile with Obi before today? Today now they are looking for Obi. Obi is a clean man, he should not allow them to stain him. Obi is wearing white. Nigerians are talking about Obi now.
“Obi is a man I have great respect for. Let me say it here, Obi should not allow PDP to stain him. If PDP were the ones winning the election, will they say they should cancel it?”
Fayose, therefore, enjoined the PDP to seek redress in court and stop trying to drag Obi into their problems.
Fayose also called for the resignation of the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu. “As for the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, I call for his immediate resignation for his inability to move the party forward,” Fayose said in a tweet on Wednesday.
