Despite their political differences, Ayo Fayose has given reasons why he won’t resort to insulting the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

Fayose who featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday said that even though he’s in a different political party from Tinubu, going into the next year’s general elections, He recognizes him as the leader of Yoruba, and hence, will not take to insulting him.  

“Let me tell you: if people are expecting me to abuse Tinubu to show that I am not supporting him, I would not do that,” he said during the show.

Fayose who is a Chieftain of main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party and also an ally of Governor Nyesom Wike noted that despite the political differences some northern governors or politicians have with President Muhammadu Buhari, they don’t resort to abuses.

He described Tinubu as a Yoruba leader and as such, he won’t descend to insulting the former Lagos State governor even though they are of different camps. Fayose said he respects Atiku Abubakar of the PDP the same way as the APC chieftain.

“If the only way to demonstrate to everybody that I am Bola Tinubu’s enemy is to come out as a Yoruba man and insult Bola Tinubu, I will never do it,” he added.

“Listen to me, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu are over 70 years old leaders, why were they sitting together to rub minds and did not carry cutlasses against it each other? Count me out of that (insulting Tinubu).”

“I am not going to be insulting Atiku,” Fayose insisted. “I am not going to be insulting Tinubu.”