By Ayodele Oni
True to their threat not to honour their appointments as members of Presidential Campaign Council of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), notable appointees led by Governorship candidate of the party, Bisi Kolawole were conspicuously absent at the inauguration of the committee in Ekiti state on Wednesday.
Majority of the absentees are perceived followers of a former Governor of the state, Ayo Fayose, who is among those clamouring for removal of the national chairman of the party, Dr Iyorcha Ayu.
Their protest is against names of some members of the council, which they claimed are no longer PDP members.
They are among those that decamped to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) following emergence of Kolawole as governorship candidate of the party.
Prominent among the names on the PCC List that shunned the inauguration, are Governorship Candidate of the party in the June 18 Governorship election in the state, Bisi Kolawole who also doubles as the PCC Chairman, Senatorial candidate of the party in Ekiti central, Lateef Ajijola, Senatorial candidate of the party in Ekiti North, Funsho Ayeni and House of Representatives Candidate of the party in Ekiti central-2, Lere Olayinka.
Former Zonal chairman South West PDP, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, who represented Governor Aminu Tambuwal, at the inauguration on Ado Ekiti, urged PDP members to work for peace to defeat the monster call APC and its beneficiaries in the country.
Olafeso, who inaugurated the State campaign council and the state campaign manager committee in Ado-Ekiti, condemned the leadership styles of the APC who he said have plunged Nigeria into numerous problems without solutions.
In his address, the Acting Chairman, Ekiti PDP presidential campaign council, PCC, Chief Ogundipe Makanjuola, said what is required is the unalloyed commitment to winning the Presidential election in so that the PDP can revamp what he described as battered economy of Nigeria.
Makanjuola, called on PDP supporters to go out to galvanize support for the party and its candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 general elections.
“We have been handed a very strategic task, a very challenging assignment, but by the special grace of God, it is not insurmountable, we shall succeed”
, notable appointees led by Governorship candidate of the party, Bisi Kolawole were conspicuously absent at the inauguration of the committee in Ekiti state on Wednesday.){kind=link}