SHETTIMA APPLAUSES FAYOSE OVER UNFLINCHING SUPPORT FOR APC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, has praised a former governor of Ekiti State and chieftain of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ayodele Fayose, for supporting Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidential bid.

It's a crystal clear that Fayose has been distancing himself from the PDP presidential campaigns over his support for the agitations of the party’s G-5 governors led by his friend and Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike.

It would also be recalled that Fayose had some months ago openly declared that he would only support a presidential candidate of Southern origin in order for power to shift to the South.

Shettima made the commendation and revelation about Fayose’s support via his Twitter handle after visiting the former Ekiti State governor.

Tinubu’s running mate wrote: “I paid my brother, former Governor of Ekiti State, H.E. Ayodele Peter Fayose a visit.