The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu and Ayo Fayose are in opposing political camps ahead of the election in 2018, but Ayo Fayose insists he won’t resort to insults.
In response to a question on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, Fayose, a leader of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said, “Let me tell you: if people are expecting me to attack Tinubu to indicate that I am not supporting him, I would not do that.”
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The former governor of Ekiti State, a supporter of Governor Nyesom Wike, asserted that despite their political differences with President Muhammadu Buhari, some northern governors and politicians refrain from using abusive language.
Even if they are from opposing camps, he said Tinubu is a Yoruba leader, and as such, he won’t criticise the former governor of Lagos State. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP is respected in the same manner as the APC leader, according to Fayose.
The PDP leader also reaffirmed his position on the transfer of power to the nation’s southern region. According to him, President Buhari, who is from the northern region and is about to finish his second term, should be succeeded as president of Nigeria by someone from the south.
Fayose, a Wike loyalist who has clashed with the PDP since the party’s presidential primaries, said he will continue to serve the party.
“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,” he added.
“Listen to me, 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 each other? Count me out of that (insulting Tinubu).”
“I am not going to be insulting Atiku,” Fayose insisted. “I am not going to be insulting Tinubu.”
