Ekiti PDP Reaffirms Fayose as Leader, Rejects Olujimi

BY ABIODUN NEJO

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has dissociated itself from the weekend’s stakeholders’ meeting which declared the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Biodun Olujimi, as the party leader.

Ekiti PDP State Executive Council (SEC) however on Monday reaffirmed former Governor Ayodele Fayose as the leader of the party in the state.

The party SEC, in a communique at the end of its meeting in Ado Ekiti, alleged that Olujimi and a former PDP State Secretary, Dr Tope Aluko, who were behind the stakeholders’ purported action, were agents of the All Progressives Congress causing destabilisation in the PDP.

It would be recalled that Aluko on Thursday led some aggrieved PDP members to invade the party’s secretariat on Ajilosun Road, Ado Ekiti, accusing the state executive members of making suspicious withdrawals from the party’s account.

The stakeholders on Saturday announced Olujimi as the party leader and as well passed a vote of no confidence in the SEC and consequently urged the NWC to constitute a caretaker committee for the party in the state.

But in the communique made available to journalists on Monday, the SEC while condemning the invasion restated the expulsion of Aluko from the party.

The communique added, “That any facilitation of crisis in the party this time of approaching election is regarded as an anti-party activity.

“That the promoters of the crisis are agents of APC government employed to destabilise the party in the run up to the presidential election.

“PDP in Ekiti State under the leadership of Gboyega Oguntuase is committed to the success of all its candidates in the coming elections especially our presidential candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku.

“That we affirm and believe in the leadership of Dr Ayodele Fayose,” the communique concluded.