Ayu’s NWC and Fayose have sold PDP to APC in Ekiti- Segun Oni

• Says PDP’s candidate is the duplicate copy of APC’s candidate

Former Ekiti State Governor, Chief Segun Oni has said that the outcome of the recent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries in Ekiti State was orchestrated by former Gov Ayo Fayose to sell the party to Gov Kayode Fayemi’s All Progressives Congress.

In a statement by his campaign Director-General, Hon Yemi Arokodare, the former Governor said it was an open secret in Ekiti political circles that the PDP ticket procured through Fayose was a duplicate copy of the APC ticket because both were sponsored from one camp.

He further stated that it was a big shame that the National Working Committee of the PDP could not see through this deception but deliberately connived with Fayose to force Gov Udom Emmanuel on the Ekiti process to achieve a predetermined hatchet job.

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“The National Chairman of the PDP, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu should explain to party members nationwide the import of Section 45 (a) Part VI under the General Provisions of the Electoral Guidelines for Primary after the ad-hoc election was nullified.

“Section 45a: ‘Any officer or member of the party who fails, refuses or neglects to carry out his duties about these guidelines on the general conduct of the primary elections or who obstructs, defies, or in any manner hinders, impedes or subverts the implementation or success of these guidelines is guilty of gross misconduct and shall be brought before the National Disciplinary Committee of the Party for disciplinary action.’

“Ayu must explain why he ignored this provision and allowed Gov Udom to come for the second exercise in Ekiti after his failure in the first led to the botched ad-hoc delegates election that was nullified thanks to the excellent job done by the Nwodo Appeal Panel.
Chairman Ayu must tell the world why he cannot trust any other PDP Governor except Gov Udom Emmanuel to conduct the two exercises in Ekiti State, when it is evident that Fayose had conducted Gov Udom’s 2019 Primaries.

“It is now crystal clear that the plot ab initio was for the two buddies of Fayose from Akwa Ibom State, Emmanuel Enoidem (former Legal Adviser of the PDP) and Gov Udom Emmanuel, to conduct the two exercises in favour of Fayose and the NWC fell for it.

“Chairman Ayu deliberately indulged Fayose who attempted to truncate the national convention that produce the current NWC and never asked him how he intended to win Ekiti for the PDP with the weakest of the aspirants, even when he could not do so as a sitting governor with his deputy in 2018.

“For the record, Ekiti is a giveaway to the APC; the majority of party members are aware that it would be an exercise in futility to spend time and resources to campaign for the candidate of the PDP ahead of the June 18 election.

“Fayose is known in the Ekiti political circle as a slave driver and a political wheeler-dealer without a second address; he fielded an aspirant who had to borrow N2m from Sen. Duro Faseyi, five days to the primaries, and this generated furore before it was paid back by Gov Seyi Makinde.

“It is shameful that the PDP Appeal Panel hurried sat to ratify a fraudulent election without looking into the merit of the petition written by one of the aspirants, Mrs Deborah Alo.

“It is worrisome that Chairman Ayu is interested in threatening party members with suspension and expulsion, but he is hardly interested in how the party will win in Ekiti,” the statement read.