< img src="https://eyewitness101.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/group-wants-fayose-suspended-from-pdp-over-alleged-congress-rigging.jpg"class ="ff-og-image-inserted"> A group in the Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party(PDP ), under the auspices of Ekiti Political Intervention Coalition (EPIC), has gotten in touch with the National Working Committee to suspend previous Governor Ayodele Fayose for supposedly stage-managing the rigging of last Saturday’s ad hoc delegate congress in the state.

The group stated that the congress was roundly rejected by stakeholders since it was apparently conducted by those it described as impostors.

The group posited that the congress, which was anticipated to have actually been performed by a National Committee chaired by the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Udom Emmanuel, was monitored by one Emmanuel Enoidem, stating it represented why the process ended in a fiasco.

Top leaders of the celebration and governorship candidates, including previous Governor Segun Oni, Senator Biodun Olujimi, Hon Wale Aribisala, former Deputy Governor Kolapo Eleka and Lateef Ajijola, had Saturday implicated the congress committee of bias, declaring that it enabled Fayose to hijack the process to his own benefit.

The PDP leaders prompted the National Chairman of the celebration, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, to cancel the congress to prevent the PDP from losing the June 18 governorship poll.

Reacting to the alleged electoral impropriety that dogged the congress, the group, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Hon. Banji Dada, on Sunday, posited that the party would be doing a disservice to PDP if it accepts the outcome of the congress, which he described as a charade.

Dada posited that “We expect Senator Ayu- led National Working Committee to increase to the celebration and ensure the nullification of the whole procedure and make sure the suspension of Ayodele Fayose from the celebration”.

The group added even more: “However, what we do not anticipate was the degree of responsibility of the five-man ad-hoc committee sent by the National Working Committee of the celebration, which was led by an impostor.

“We wish to inform the NWC and the whole management of the party that the ad-hoc election exercise to choose three-person delegates was led and conducted by a trespasser and somebody unidentified to law and the instruction of the celebration.

“While the party revealed H.E. Chief Udom Emmanuel as the chairman of the committee however oddly, the workout was, nevertheless, performed by a various individual, an impostor called Emmanuel Enoidem, the instant past National Legal Adviser of the PDP.

“This Emmanuel Enoidem was not listed and acknowledged by the NWC to be the Chairman of the Ekiti Ad-hoc delegates work out, based upon its main announcement, which has actually now rendered the entire exercise a nullity”.

The group included that “a large number of the committee members sent to Ekiti for the congress, had served under Uche Secondus led NWC referred to as tax collectors by Gov Nyesome Wike, while they also tried to frustrate Gov Makinde of Oyo State over the Southwest zonal executives.

“Some of them are known followers of Fayose and have actually enjoyed his patronage.

“There was no ad-hoc election known to law in the entire 177 wards in Ekiti State, except for an afterthought kangaroo arrangement in a few places where some persons were informed to start jubilating on video camera shouting “Oshoko” to justify the electoral burglary.

“The whole exercise was a mockery formulated to impose an aspirant on the PDP in Ekiti State.”