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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Friday disclosed that President Bola Tinubu once asked him to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, but he declined.<\/p>\n

Fayose made this known while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today.<\/p>\n

The former governor noted that he has never hidden his admiration for Tinubu, even during his tenure as governor.<\/p>\n

According to Fayose: \u201cNigerians know where I belong every time it comes to the issues of politics and our country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recalled very well that the president asked that I should come to APC and I said no.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a sitting governor I didn\u2019t 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\u2019t president at the time, Buhari was president of Nigeria then.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was part of the G-5, I wasn\u2019t the only one at the time, we had sitting governors, so it\u2019s not whether I\u2019m trying to find my feet, I was very clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cGo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Friday disclosed that President Bola Tinubu once asked him to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, but he declined. Fayose made this known while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today. 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