ABIODUN NEJO writes that peace and unity of purpose have continued to elude the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State as internal wrangling and...
ABIODUN NEJO writes that peace and unity of purpose have continued to elude the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State as internal wrangling and factional groups have held them downPerhaps both the governing All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State are living under the illusion that the state’s governorship election in 2022 is still far, hence the idea of leaving things to chance by allowing their...
In the APC, the dust raised by the conduct of the governorship primaries in 2018 has refused to settle as an aggrieved group, which feel its members are being marginalised, has challenged the congresses that produced the party executive committees at all levels. These are among the issues that the APC National Reconciliatory Committee led by the Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, set up to intervene in the Ekiti APC crisis and resolve it, will be confronted with.
A statement by Fayemi’s Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, titled, ‘Governor Fayemi’s purported suspension: A joke taken too far’, described the Ojudu group members as impostors, stating, “Members of the group cannot hide under their recent suspension to announce a dubious suspension they lack the locus to handle.”
The status quo, according to them, is that nobody has been suspended from the party and that Omotoso is the authentic state chairman of the party, which implies that the aggrieved party members can go ahead with their litigation challenging the congresses that produced the executive committees at the ward, council and state levels.
Shortly after, the party inaugurated an eight-man reconciliation and peace committee headed by Chief Awe, with a charge by Omotoso to maintain unity and sincerity of purpose for it to remain strong and victorious in all coming elections. But just as Ojudu describes the move as “laughable and against the party constitution,” the 12 affected persons, who suspected foul play in the state chapter’s move, vowed not to appear before the committee based on their conviction that the national body had no hand in the matter.
Ojudu and others, had in a statement titled: ‘Before our impending expulsion from APC’, by the group’s spokesperson, Prince Bamgboye Adegoroye, earlier that Wednesday, said the APC would crumble in Ekiti if they were expelled as being allegedly hatched by Fayemi. While those loyal to Olujimi said they held their congresses in the presence of the Independent National Electoral Commission and law enforcement agents and that the Fayose group did not hold any congress but merely wrote names, those loyal to the former governor said their congresses were conducted by the validly appointed ward congress electoral officers led by the Taraba State Deputy Governor, Haruna Manu.
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