PDP Will Finish Fourth In 2027 Election – Fayose, Claims Tinubu Ask Him To Join APC

Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Friday, 24 January, 2025 disclosed that a lot is wrong with the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) which will augur welll for the success of the party in 2027 general elections, reports the Business Today NG.
Fayose also disclosed that President Bola Tinubu once asked him to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, but he declined.
Fayose also predicted that the PDP would likely come fourth in the 2027 elections,
The former governor stated this while featuring on Channels Television’s programme Politics Today on Friday, 25 July, 2025
According to him, that it was unfortunate that he was absent during the PDP’s National Executive Committee, NEC meeting.
“PDP will come 4th in the next general election. A lot is wrong with our party (PDP), and that is the naked truth, and it is unfortunate. I was duly invited, ” the former governor said
On Tinubu asking him to join the ruling party, Fayose noted that he has never hidden his admiration for Tinubu, even during his tenure as governor.
“Nigerians know where I belong every time it comes to the issues of politics and our country.I recalled very well that the president asked that I should come to APC and I said no.
“When the late Buhari seemed to be playing games, I was one of the people who said that this APC will do this or that and the next thing the now president did was to start dancing and singing.
“When I was a sitting governor I didn’t hide my respect and support for Tinubu, I never did. I was upright, stood my grounds, I visited him severally as a sitting governor and I recalled when he had a knee injury I went there openly to say hello to him, he wasn’t president at the time, Buhari was president of Nigeria then.
“I was part of the G-5, I wasn’t the only one at the time, we had sitting governors, so it’s not whether I’m trying to find my feet, I was very clear.
“When your kinsman wants to be president and he has capacity, what should you do? You should fight him? You should throw him under the bus? I have been like this.
“Go back to Ekiti, every former governor has their homesteads and the governor is being supported by all the former governors which is the first time in the history of this country.”
The former governor noted that it was unfortunate that he was absent during the PDP’s National Executive Committee, NEC meeting.
Recall that PDP, the main opposition party, has been embroiled in several layers of crisis within its leadership ranks.
The crisis led to chieftains like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President David Mark, and others defecting to the opposition coalition that adopted the African Democratic Congress, ADC.