Politics
THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State not to waste his resources on his presidential ambition, saying the party’s candidate for the 2019 election would come from the North.
The party said all its members were aware of the zoning formula it adopted for both its presidential ticket and the position of the national chairman.
Fayose had sent letters to some leaders of the party to inform them about his decision to contest the party’s presidential ticket in 2019.
The governor said he would make a formal declaration at an event in Abuja on Thursday, September 28.
In the letter, signed by the governor with a letterhead of Ayo Fayose Presidential Campaign Organisation, said in part: “My dear leader, it is with deep sense of responsibility that I write to inform you of my intention to seek the ticket/mandate of our party to contest the 2019 presidential election, considering your support and commitment towards our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party, it becomes imperative to keep you informed and seek your support.
“This ambition is, however, without prejudice to our party’s position, but in the overall interest of the party and our country.
“I urge that all hands should be on deck to ensure victory in our quest to return to the Presidential Villa, Abuja in 2019.”
Perhaps, irked by the audacity, Dayo Adeyeye, the national publicity secretary of the PDP, called on Fayose to respect the decisions of the party on zoning.
According to Adeyeye the party cannot allow a non-northerner fly its presidential ticket because it has zoned it to the north.
He said Fayose could only contest for the office of the national chairman which he said the party zoned to the south.
He said, being a prominent member of the PDP and equally being present at the meeting when the zoning was made, Fayose ought not to seek to disrespect the decision of the party. Adeyeye said: “The highest organ of the party, which is the national convention, zoned the presidential ticket of the PDP to the North. That has not changed. The same national convention zoned the position of the national chairman to the South. The convention has yet to change any of these two.
“That (national convention) is the supreme organ of the party. Those decisions are binding on all members of the party. Nobody can alter these decisions.
“The governor is a member of the party and was at the convention where these decisions were taken. As a leader of the party, one expected the governor to respect the party and its decisions.
“If someone in such an office is breaking the decisions of the party, what do you expect from the rank and file?”
Sources at the party national headquarters told our correspondent that Fayose could be working to deny the South-West the opportunity of producing the party’s national chairman.
Sept. 27, 2017 @ 12:54 GMT /
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