Fayose's election: Angry PDP Leaders Give Jonathan Ultimatum

Aggrieved leaders of Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State have given President Goodluck Jonathan a five-day ultimatum to intervene in the crisis rocking the party over the emergence of former Governor Ayo Fayose and Senator Gbenga Aluko as the governorship candidates of the party in the state.

A leader of the PDP in the state, Chief Feyisayo Fajuyi, who led other party leaders to a press conference in Ado Ekiti on Monday, called on Jonathan to declare null and void the election which produced Fayose.

Chief Fajuyi said that the process which led to the primary election of March 22 was fraught with irregularities and insisted that based on this, the election should be annulled.

While calling on the national leadership of the party not to treat the issue with levity, Chief Fajuyi said the group might “take a decision that could be unpalatable to the party.”

“We want the President to intervene in this crisis. The primary election of March 22 was a fraud because the ward congresses which led to it were openly rigged. Today makes it the 16th day of our waiting for a redress. While waiting, some leaders have been persuaded to abandon the truth.

“We as a group jointly and individually dissociate ourselves from being part of moving on at the loomong peril of failure at the coming governorship polls.

“The purported primaries itself was a daylight rape on democracy, and it was widely dismissed as unacceptable by the majority of the party’s stakeholders in Ekiti,” Chief Fajuyi.

Other leaders who attended the press conference are:

Chief Bankole Fayori (Irepodun/Ifelodun), Oluwalana Ayobami (youth president), Chief Ajayi (Ise/Orun), Mrs. Foluke Adetunji (Ekiti West), Mr. Akinola Adams (Ijero-Ekiti) and Biodun Ajibadeola (Ikole-Ekiti).

Meanwhile, Ekiti State Police Command has warned politicians against raising false alarm ahead of the June 21 governorship election. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Felix Uyanna, said that it was unfortunate that some politicians had been raising the alarm that they were attacked whereas nothing like that happened.