By-Election: Fayose Tells PDP What To Do To Win In Lagos

Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) what to do if they want to be victorious at the forthcoming senatorial by-election in Lagos state.

Fayose who issued this advice in a statement by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, on Wednesday said the Lagos State chapter of the party needs to send the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George, on a “political retirement” if they want to progress and win elections in Lagos State.

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Fayose said that Bode George should be a support stand for younger ones instead of dragging position with them.

Pointing further that Lagos was ripe for PDP to take over, Fayose who called for support of the PDP candidate ahead of the by-election said that the party would take over if it works hard and put its house in order.

Also pointing out the need for the party to separate the wheat from the chaffs, Fayose said, “This senate election is for PDP to take if we are ready to take it. You have done it before by producing House of Reps members and you can do it again by producing a senator.

 “Before PDP can win any election in this Lagos, the party must first separate the wheat from chaffs.

 “It is high time to tell Bode George to go and retire. Let him be a support stand for the younger ones in the party.

“As I am here, I am about 60 years of age, I have grown above fighting for minister that it will get to a point and someone will say he is sacking me. I will never be such minister not to talk of contesting any post with younger ones in the party.

“It is time for young people in the party to tell elderly ones to take the back seat. I’m not against the elders, but I want them to know when to take the back seat. If they don’t, the young ones will force them. All those stories of we formed this party in 1998, eight of us sat in my sitting room to form the party, is no longer important because the younger ones too must be allowed to grow.

“At this level, if you see any elder contesting chairman with the younger ones, you must know that such fellow needs to be retired.

“I am Ayodele Fayose, you can quote me anywhere. I said you must retire Bode George if you want progress in the PDP in Lagos. You must stand firm and fight for your right.

“As an elder, he is supposed to stay at home and be giving blessing to his children aspiring to grow not to be contending positions with them,” He said.

Lagos is believed to be a stronghold of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with the state rumored to be under the control of the party's national leader Bola Tinubu for the past twenty-one years.

APC at the last election won all elective positions in the state.