Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said that the crisis tearing through the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) can only be resolved by confronting what he described as “leadership decay” at the top level of the party.
Naijaonpoint reports that Fayose made the remarks on Tuesday during an interview on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, where he declared that the PDP is “decaying from the head.”
The outspoken former governor likened the party’s situation to a fish rotting from its head, saying such decay cannot be salvaged unless leadership failures are addressed.
He said, “When fish decays from the body, you can salvage it, but when it decays from the head, you cannot salvage it. Currently, the PDP has decayed from the head.”
Fayose noted that he had repeatedly raised alarm over the state of the party, warning that internal disunity and weak leadership structures were gradually destroying it.
He further stated, “I have not come here for one day to deceive Nigerians about PDP, and I’ve not hidden the fact that I will never leave PDP.
“I have also not hidden the fact that I am a great supporter of the president as a Yoruba man. I stand to be corrected, and I have said severally that PDP is in trouble.”
Fayose also claimed that he had earlier predicted that some PDP governors would defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), adding that his warning had already started playing out.
He said, “After my visit here three weeks ago, Governor Diri left. He was actually the chairman of the (PDP) campaign screening committee, but he left. Governor of Enugu left. And the third one is governor of Taraba, who was handed over by the president to the national chairman of the APC.”
The former governor alleged that the crisis within the PDP has deepened to the point where more defections are imminent.
Predicting another wave of exits from the party, Fayose claimed that the Governor of Plateau State would soon dump the PDP for the APC.
He added, “Another one will leave very soon. Governor of Plateau will leave. But I’m telling you again, after the governor of Plateau, another governor will leave. When I come back here, I will remind you again.”
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