The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed Governor Ayodele Fayose’s ambition to become president, saying the party’s candidate for the 2019 election will emerge from the North.

The governor of Ekiti state had informed the party in a letter about his decision to run for the presidency on its platform. The letter was signed by him under the banner of Ayo Fayose Presidential Campaign Organisation.

Reacting to the move, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, called on Fayose to respect the decisions taken by the party.

Adeyeye told Punch that: ”The highest organ of the party, which is the national convention, zoned the presidential ticket of the PDP to the North. That has not changed. The same national convention zoned the position of the national chairman to the South. The convention has yet to change any of these two.

”That (national convention) is the supreme organ of the party. Those decisions are binding on all members of the party.  Nobody can alter these decisions.”

”The governor is a member of the party and was at the convention where these decisions were taken.

”As a leader of the party, one expected the governor to respect the party and its decisions. If someone in such an office is breaking the decisions of the party, what do you expect from the rank and file.”

Fayose had once visited the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Walid Jibrin, at his residence in Abuja, where he solicited his support for his ambition.

However, the governor was reminded of the party’s zoning formula, to which Fayose was said to have responded that he was constitutionally qualified to run.