Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has likened the Peoples Democratic Party presidential ticket to an “ordinary toilet roll,” claiming that some governors within the party treat it with disdain and are only interested in it for personal amusement rather than genuine leadership ambition.
Fayose made this scathing remark during an appearance on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television aired on Wednesday. He accused five remaining PDP governors of undermining the party from within in a bid to seize control and manipulate its structure for their own interests.
“There are other three governors that will leave soon and five will be remaining. From the five remaining, one of them will want to struggle to catch the ticket, just to catch fun with it,” Fayose stated.
“They all know that the ticket is an ordinary toilet roll paper. The five remaining are largely killing the party because they want to control the party.”
He suggested that the desperation to manipulate the PDP’s internal politics is not about ideology or service but about self-preservation and future bargaining power.
“This was what happened in 2023, you might take it or leave it. Majority of the governors in PDP including the person that wants to be candidate that is struggling to manipulate the whole system, all they are doing is trying to negotiate so that they don’t get into trouble thereafter, that is the truth,” Fayose said.
His comments come at a time of intense turbulence within the PDP, following a spate of defections to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Within a span of 24 hours, Governors Peter Mbah of Enugu and Douye Diri of Bayelsa switched allegiance to the APC. They followed in the footsteps of Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom and Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, who also defected earlier in 2025.
Fayose’s blunt criticism underscores the growing disillusionment within the PDP and raises questions about the credibility and seriousness of its 2027 presidential ambition.
