The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is having difficulties taming one of its own–Ekiti state governor Ayodele Fayose.
Fayose comes across as something of a loose canon; often aiming diatribes at president Muhammadu Buhari– and the PDP has admitted it is having its own hands full with the man from Ekiti.
National secretary of the PDP, Wale Oladipo, said it is wrong for Fayose to issue a counter order to that of a federal high court with regards to holding a south west zonal congress. Oladipo had announced the cancellation of the zonal congress, citing the order of the court.
But he’s accused Fayose of instigating south west members of the party to go ahead with the congress, regardless.
“Governor Fayose is not a member of the national working committee of the PDP, but he’s causing confusion with his utterances,” said Ladipo.
“We are not dabbling into his government and he has no right to tell us how to run the party here. We have an order of the court stopping the congress. The governor cannot overrule the court.
“He should behave like other governors who do not dabble into the running of the party at the national level. He should learn from Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State who respects the party and the president of the country.
“The order of the court was even published in three national dailies and therefore, he can’t deny he was not aware. Our national legal adviser who is the chief legal adviser of the party, Mr. Victor Kwon, has advised that we comply with the order and we are complying with it. We are not above the law of the land.
“Those who want to claim they want to organise any conference are doing that on their own, not on behalf of the party. Whatever comes out of it would be null and void because we are not monitoring it.”
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