Four Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) governorship aspirants in Ekiti State have called on the national
leadership of the party to stop Governor Ayo Fayose from playing any role in
the primary election scheduled for April.
They said the National Working
Committee (NWC) led by Prince Uche Secondus should disqualify Fayose having adopted
his deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, which they said amounted to the imposition on
party leaders and members.
The concerned aspirants at a news
conference they addressed on Tuesday, claimed that there was no time Olusola
showed interest in ruling the state adding that “Fayose saw him as a weakling
that can be manipulated against the interest of Ekiti people.”
The four aspirants who addressed
reporters are former Minister of State for Works and immediate past PDP
national spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye; Senate Minority Whip and former Deputy
Governor, Mrs. Biodun Olujimi; former Secretary to the State Government and
former High Commissioner to Canada, Ambassador Dare Bejide and former Attorney
General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Owoseni Ajayi.
They also called for the
dissolution of the state PDP executive committee led by Mr. Gboyega Oguntuase
for allegedly betraying its expected neutrality, calling for the constitution
of a caretaker committee in its stead.
Adeyeye lampooned Fayose for
allegedly carrying out persecution of other aspirants to “a ridiculous level”
by ordering party members in all parts of the state to reject Christmas gifts
they sent to them.
Adeyeye said: “The candidate he
(Fayose) has chosen for himself is not a person that can win the election in
this state. When you display billboards and you are writing “Meet Your Next
Governor” on them, you are putting yourself in the position of God and that is
very annoying.
“We will not leave the party for
him because he sees himself as all-in-all but we know he is not all-in-all. The
governor being an interested party must be put in his place and no advantage
should be accorded (Olusola) Eleka.”
Mrs. Olujimi said: “We have not
come here to tear our party apart, all we are demanding for is a free and fair
process that will lead to the emergence of a candidate.
“Can anybody who wants to win the
election for PDP wish us away? If anybody wants to wish us away in the party,
the consequences will be grave.
“The primary will ne held in few
months and nothing has changed. This (Fayose) was the same man who opposed the
use of consensus when he was contesting the last time.”
Bejide said: “Section 50 (i), 50 (2)
and 50 (2b) of the PDP constitution spells out how our candidate will emerge.
“Imposition, impunity and
arbitrary action of a sitting governor is definitely ruled out and we will
surely enforce the provision of the law.
“The governor and the State Working
Committee has no role to play except they are co-opted by the national
leadership.”
Ajayi said: “The governor may
claim that he has the right to support any aspirant of his choice but the
deputy governor has not come out to say he wants to be governor.
“What the deputy governor has
said was that he wants to back to the university to continue lecturing. The
govenor is forcing the Deputy Governor on us.
“The so-called was a fraudulent
act, an illegal action; I want to tell you that eighty percent of those working
with him are with us. They are only working for the money they are earning.”
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