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Ekiti
State Governor Ayo Fayose
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A fresh crisis appears to be brewing in the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) as Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has rejected Ondo State
Governor Olusegun Mimiko as chairman of the party’s Governors’ Forum.
Fayose has rallied some
other governors in the party to kick against Mimiko’s emergence.
He has petitioned the
national leadership of the party to intervene before the matter degenerates
into a full blown crisis.
A source at the party’s
national secretariat in Abuja was quoted to have confirmed the receipt of the
petition against Mimiko. The party’s National Working Committee (NWC) will be
meeting the party’s governors today to ironing out the matter.
The aggrieved governors
were said to have protested that the choice of Mimiko did not follow due
process on grounds that Mimiko defected to the PDP only last year.
Mimiko emerged chairman
of the Forum last week the governors’ meeting in Abuja, where only six of the
party’s 13 governors and two deputies were present.
Former Akwa Ibom State
Governor, Godswill Akpabio is the pioneer chairman of the Forum, a position he
relinquished at the expiration of his tenure on May 29.
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