Dear,
This issue is very critical for Editors community because it can reveal conflict concern in the next step of reviewing process. However, providing the reason in a good manner can make the editors understand your case.
This like can give you some ideas to extract a good reason to drop one of the co-authors from the list.
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/co-authors-gone-bad-how-to-avoid-publis...
Best regards
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