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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has debunked online reports purporting that he had pledged to support Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n

In a viral report, Fayose, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was alleged to have said while he had nothing against Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) his choice in 2023 is Tinubu.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have nothing against Atiku, Peter Obi is not my enemy but JAGABAN is my choice,\u201d Fayose was alleged to have tweeted.<\/p>\n

Debunking the statement, Lere Olayinka, Fayose\u2019s media aide described the report as fake news.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not true. He never said anything like that. Disregard the fake news,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has debunked online reports purporting that he had pledged to support Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections. In a viral report, Fayose, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was alleged to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":71262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[8474,1570,2140,224,254,945],"class_list":["post-71263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-2023-presidential-election","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-fayose","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"\nFayose disowns Tinubu as preferred choice for 2023 presidential election - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has debunked online reports purporting that he had pledged to support Asiwaju ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fayose disowns Tinubu as preferred choice for 2023 presidential election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has debunked online reports purporting that he had pledged to support Asiwaju ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-31T12:52:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-31T14:00:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_4-630f696626a41.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1205\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Fayose disowns Tinubu as preferred choice for 2023 presidential election\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-31T12:52:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-31T14:00:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election\"},\"wordCount\":150,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_4-630f696626a41.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023 presidential election\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Fayose\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fayose-disowns-tinubu-as-preferred-choice-for-2023-presidential-election\",\"name\":\"Fayose disowns Tinubu as preferred choice for 2023 presidential election - 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