Former governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose has voiced out his reservations over the ongoing debate about which zone gets the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)”s presidential ticket.
Fayose who is also a presidential aspirant of the party, said the ticket would go to the South.
Speaking during a Channel Television interview, Fayose also advised those canvassing for a consensus presidential candidate not to dissipate their energy on the issue, pointing out that “as good as that language looks, it is undemocratic.”
He said,“I don’t believe in not zoning this presidential ticket. I was a member of the zoning committee except for the last day that I picked up my form.
“All they said was ‘because the party ought to have started the process a long time, for reasons of the fact that some people have bought forms, maybe the party can find a way to work around consensus’. They never made that statement (on throwing the presidential ticket open).
“Let me say to you, the only solution is zoning. The north can’t contest the last primary — the one we had in Port Harcourt which was an all northern affair — and come and tell us that there won’t be southern affair.
“I saw the people going around for consensus. Who will step down for who? You asked me to step down? I won’t step down,” he said.
“They said they want all of us to come and do consensus. I don’t know about them. I have taken my form today. I am not going to step down.
“Who knows if it is me that Nigerians want to vote for? Do you know the mind of Nigerians? Do you know who they want? Any meeting or anywhere they talk about consensus, as good as that language looks, it is undemocratic.”
