Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has blamed the PDP’s loss at the March 28, 2015 presidential election on what he described as the party’s ‘political miscalculation” in fielding former President Goodluck Jonathan as its candidate.
In an interview with Premium Times, Fayose said the PDP lost the election because it did not pick its candidate from the north. He also emphasized that the PDP lost not because Jonathan was a bad person.
“We lost the election because we did not pick our candidate from the north, not because Jonathan as a person was bad. It was just a political miscalculation,” Fayose told the online newspaper.
The Ekiti State governor also disclosed that if he were in Jonathan’s shoes, he would not have contested the election, blaming the mass defection of some northern politicians from the PDP on the fact that Jonathan chose to run for president in 2015.
“The fact is that my former president, I chose my word, my former president, Goodluck Jonathan, tried his best. But if I were him, I would not have contested at all, you understand. Because it is two ways: if he did not contest and the PDP lost out, he will still be an honourable man, and if he had given that opportunity to the north, those who defected from the PDP would not have defected.”
Fayose however maintained that Jonathan did his best and he would continue to support the former president.
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