The Individuals’s Democratic Celebration (PDP) in Ekiti State has attacked the previous governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose, over his current endorsement of the incumbent governor, Biodun Oyebanji, for a second time period within the 2026 governorship ballot.
The opposition celebration was reacting to final weekend’s endorsement of Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos by Fayose in the course of the celebration of his spouse’s sixtieth birthday.
In a communiqué issued on the finish of their assembly in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, on the premises of a pacesetter of the celebration, Makanjuola Ogundipe, on Tuesday, the PDP stakeholders stated the endorsement of the governor was the non-public resolution of Fayose and doesn’t symbolize the celebration.
The stakeholders, consisting of leaders of the celebration drawn from the 16 native authorities areas of the state, referred to as on the nationwide management of the celebration to fully expel the previous governor and his followers who participated within the alleged shameful endorsement.
Within the communiqué that was learn on the finish of the assembly by the previous State Publicity Secretary of the celebration, Jackson Adebayo, members had been warned to not be carried away by the alleged antics of Fayose, saying that the PDP is just not for hire.
The communique reads, “ That members shouldn’t be carried away by the antics of the previous governor, Ayodele Fayose, that solely depend on the usage of cash to woo his victims.
“ That we condemned in totality the purported endorsement of Biodun Oyebanji by Fayose and his group in Lagos whereas calling on the nationwide management of the celebration to fully expel the previous governor and his followers that participated within the shameful endorsement.”
The celebration stakeholders additionally resolved that every one the branches of the celebration on the native authorities degree ought to begin the method of suspending any members of the celebration that adopted Fayose in his alleged anti-party actions.
The Zonal Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Sanya Atofarati, who spoke on the parley, stated that although the previous governor has a proper to assist anybody for a second time period, such endorsement doesn’t symbolize the place of the PDP on the state and nationwide degree.
In line with him, “We’re not members of the APC, and we aren’t supporting Governor Oyebanji for a second time period. We don’t see any vital issues he has accomplished to warrant the endorsement. We within the southwest and the nationwide management dissociate ourselves from his purported endorsement by Fayose.”
The assembly referred to as for the unity of all members and teams inside the celebration in order that the celebration might reclaim its misplaced glory, saying that ward conferences needs to be held throughout the native authorities areas.
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