Ekiti 2022: Cracks In Olujimi’s PDP Repositioning Group, Ajilola Rejected As Consensus Candidate
The Repositioning Group, a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State loyal to the Senator representing Ekiti South, Biodun Olujimi, has rejected the emergence of Mr Lateef Ajijola as the group candidate for the party primary ahead of the 2022 governorship election.
Ajijola, a former senatorial aspirant, had in the group’s mini primary held in Ado Ekiti on September 3, 2023, defeated two other top contestants to emerge the winner. He polled 50 votes while another aspirant Otunba Yinka Akerele scored 26 votes and a former deputy governor of the state, Dr. Sikiru Tai Lawal scored 4 votes.
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Banking in the euphoria of this victory, Ajijola, had obtained PDP Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms.
Engineer Alaba Agboola,
Chairman of the Repositioning Group said in a statement on Sunday that the “group is YET To pick any candidate that will participate in the coming primaries.”
REPOSITIONING MOVEMENT’ UPDATE:
It is now a common place news that the Repositioning Group recently held an in- House election purposefully to democratically pick a Gubernatorial candidate to represent our group at the forthcoming PDP gubernatorial primaries coming up in January, 2022.
It will be recalled that three aspirants presented themselves for the election in which Alhaji Lateef Ajijola won more votes than the others. However, the terms of the MOU before the election gave room for the elders’ appeal panel to wade in incase the election conducts and result contravened the gentleman’s agreements among the aspirants.
In line with this, a 5-man appeal committee headed by Rt.Hon.Tunji Odeyemi was set up after one of the aspirants petitioned the group’s leadership with cited cases of malpractices pre and post the election.
After due considerations and investigations of all the allegations as contained in the petition; the Committee’s findings as contained in their report released on the 28th, September. 2021 and signed by all the five-member committee upheld all the allegations as contained in the petition.
To this end, the Repositioning elders caucus had an online conference meeting on September 28, 2021 and adopted all the findings of the appeal Committee as presented.
In view of this, the prepordence opinions of the Elders was that the in-House election held on the 3rd of September, 2021 could not be said to have been held as a true representation of the intention of the organisers ( Repositioning Movement) to bring out a candidate that will represent the group at the forthcoming competitive Ekiti state PDP Governorship primaries.
It has been resolved therefore, that the group is YET To pick any candidate that will participate in the coming primaries. Members are to be calm and continue to trust in the leadership of the group that appropriate steps are being taken urgently to ensure that we choose a candidate to represent the interest of the Repositioning Group in the PDP gubernatorial primary come January, 2022.
In God we trust.
Signed,
Engineer Alaba Agboola.
Chairman
3rd, October, 2021.
