Ekiti State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to put its house together barely three weeks to the presidential and National Assembly elections. The party has gone from one crisis to another as the various tendencies have refused to forge a common front to return to Government House, while All Progressives Congress (APC) now sits comfortably, a feat that is unprecedented in the state since 1999. However, it is the PDP that has impoverished itself, with the factions unable to put their differences aside and support their governorship candidate, in the 2022 governorship election. The party’s candidate, Mr Bisi Kolawole came a distant third going by the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The remote cause of the latest crisis is the composition of the state chapter of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council . The Director General of the PDP PCC and governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Tambuwal had announced the appointment of Kolawole an ally of former governor Ayodele Fayose, as state chairman of the campaign council for the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar alongside other management committee and eleven directorates.
He lamented that the decision of the party to reject the list compiled by him after consultation with stakeholders was unacceptable, but stated that he would continue in his personal capacity to be committed and loyal to the party. “In arriving at the list, I followed the template and consulted relevant stakeholders, most importantly, National Assembly candidates whose elections are on the same date as that of the president.
“Will they be campaigning for the presidential candidate of our party and at the same time campaigning for the Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates of the SDP? Sources in the party said that apart from the lists made public, the national leadership tried unsuccessfully three times before to constitute the campaign council, but on each occasion, it met a brick wall because the pro-Fayose group frustrated the efforts. It could be recalled that Fayose, the arrowhead of the group, has been fraternizing with the Group of 5 governors led by Nyelsom Wike of Rivers State, who had also withdrawn from the Atiku campaign.
Makanjuola, called on PDP supporters to go out to galvanize support for the PDP and “the incoming President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 general elections. Speaking on the development while addressing the crowd at the Ekiti parapo Pavilion, the National Chairman of PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu pointed accusing fingers at the powers within and without. “Some of you came here trekking, some climbed bicycles, and others used your private vehicles to convey people here because you have a political party that does not believe in democracy. If you believe in democracy, you will allow other political parties to express themselves.
“All the roads that connect you to other states will be constructed. You have more educated people, we will develop your human capital, utilize your human resources. God has given you young people, they will have sources of income. I have said I will set $10billion aside as a loan for youths to achieve their ambitions.
Irked by the alleged role played by some chieftains of the party to frustrate the rally and other alleged anti party activities, the National Working Committee of the Party wielded the big stick by dissolving the State Working Committee whose members, except a few, are loyal to Fayose.
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