A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Omotoso Okeya, who rejected his appointment as the state Assistant Secretary, Research and ...
It is not that we donโt want to embrace them in our party, we want more people to win the election, Atiku wants people to win the election, but we want people who will genuinely work for the party. Reading between the lines, you will see that the Ekiti PDP is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, which can explode at any time, because going to an election with members of an opposition party planning for a candidate of the PDP is completely dangerous. The PDP candidates for the Senate, House of Reps and House of Assembly in Ekiti State, who ought to mobilise for the presidential candidate, did not participate in the inauguration. The problem in the Ekiti State PDP is the cumulative effect of the struggle that started long ago. But instead of upholding the list as was the case of other states, some factional group members from the Ekiti PDP went to influence it and ensured that the list was tampered with. But on this matter, the party officials at the national level sent to the state to nominate those who would work in the PDP Presidential Campaign Council for Ekiti State as done in other states.