Ekiti PDP Edges out Fayose, Installs Olujimi New Leader
In what appeared like a coup, some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday appointed the Senator Representing Ekiti South, Mrs. Biodun Olujimi the leader of the party in Ekiti State and Southwest.
In the same manner, the stakeholders passed vote of no confidence on the Chief Gboyega Oguntuase-led State Working Committee of the Party in Ekiti, thereby calling on the National Chairman of the party, Chief Uche Secondus to dissolve the executive and set up a caretaker com- mittee to pilot the party’s affairs.
There was ominous sign of crisis in the PDP on Thursday, when some party members stormed the party secretariat in Ado Ekiti and locked it up, which signaled that they no longer had confidence in the party leadership in the state.
The stakeholders said they decided to call for the disbandment of the State executive due to alleged financial recklessness brought against the SWC.
In a communiqué signed at the end of the stakeholders’ meeting held in Ado Ekiti yesterday, the party said it took the decision to install Olujimi the leader owing to the fact that she remains the most top ranking elected official in the state and southwest.
The resolution, signed and read by the Protem Secretary of the PDP Stakeholders and former Assembly member, Hon Bunmi Olugbade, also overruled the SWC on the suspension of former State Secretary of the party, Dr. Tope Aluko , saying he remains a bonafide member of the party.
The leaders also resolved to back the candidacy of former Vice
President Atiku Abubakar and other candidates in Ekiti to win the 2019 elections. It said: “We are poised to reposition and return the PDP back to the people and therefore call on the party leadership to constitute an independent committee to look into the affairs of the party in Ekiti state with a view to repositioning the party for the 2019 elections.
“That there is an urgent need for reconciliation and the panacea for true reconciliation is the immediate dissolution of the present state working committee of the PDP and a constitution of caretaker committee.