By Ayodele Afolabi, Ado-Ekiti
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), yesterday, inaugurated its Ekiti State chapter, ignoring the protests by loyalists of the former governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, who complained about the composition of the committee.
Some political associates of Fayose, including Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) PCC in the state, Bisi Kolawole, had earlier rejected their appointment.
Kolawole, a former governorship candidate of the party in the last June 18 polls with some of the party’s National Assembly candidates, as well as some members of the State Working Committee, had alleged that the list of the campaign committee comprises returnees from the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which according to them, amounts to rewarding disloyalty.
Director-General of the PDP PCC and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, had recently announced the appointment of Kolawole as chairman of the campaign council in the state alongside others.
However, at the inauguration, yesterday, the former governor and his core supporters were conspicuously absent, without sending words to the event.
Tambuwal, while speaking at the inauguration of the campaign committee, yesterday, in Ado-Ekiti, represented by former Zonal Chairman of PDP in the South-West, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, urged PDP members to work for peace to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its beneficiaries in the country.
He condemned the leadership style of the APC, who he alleged, had plunged Nigeria into numerous problems without solutions.
The Sokoto State governor said Nigerians had witnessed the worst Christmas ever in country’s history, urging the electorate to use their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to defeat the APC and vote for Atiku and Okowa, who are the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the party in the 2023 general elections.
In his address, the Acting Chairman, Ekiti PDP PCC, Chief Ogundipe Makanjuola, said what is required of members of the party is the unalloyed commitment to the winning of the presidential election so that the PDP could revive the battered economy of country.
Makanjuola, therefore, implored PDP supporters to go out to galvanise support for the PDP and 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 and we shall succeed,” he said.
Source: The Guardian
