How the New PDP condemned imposition of candidates on the party

They condemned imposition of candidates on the party, describing it as “inimical to the progress of the party. That this has bred indiscipline among members and low morale among the disciplined members.”

The concerned PDP stakeholders also resolved that the status of the new party secretariat on Ajilosun Road in the state capital, should be disclosed by the PDP State Working Committee. A fact-finding committee of the stakeholders had in their report at the meeting hinged the party’s poor outing in the general elections in the state on alleged anti-party activities by the former Governor; and lack of virile, bold and capable SWC with capacity to lead.

Other factors, according to them, include impoverishment of party members and few political appointments. The stakeholders resolved that as way forward, the PDP should be returned to the people by way of restoring members’ rights to choose for themselves and as well sanctioning anti-party activities by any member in line with the party’s constitution.

In a swift reaction to the development, Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, dismissed the gathering, saying those in attendance were not PDP members.

Olayinka said, “I don’t know of any PDP meeting. A gathering having the House of Assembly members who were responsible for the removal of duly elected council chairmen, vice chairman and councilors should not be accorded any recognition. To me, that is not a gathering of PDP members.”

It will be recalled that has suffered serious political losses in the state. It lost the 2018 governorship election and some other key positions to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, during the 2019 general elections.

Currently, the state is being ruled by the APC with Dr Kayode Fayemi as the Governor after beating Kolapo Olusola-Eleka of the PDP in the election and all the court cases that followed and lingered up to the Supreme Court.