EKITI PDP: Fayose loses out as Olujimi’s close ally becomes substantive chairman
by Ebor Cletus Ralph Jr
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Alaba Agboola, a close associate of Senator Biodun Olujimi, has replaced former governor Ayodele Fayose as the party’s official chairman in Ekiti State, suggesting that Fayose may have lost control of the state’s PDP branch.
Engineer Agboola takes the position of Hon. Bisi Kolawole, the party’s previous candidate for governor who resigned as the State Chairman to run for governor of the state.
Following a meeting of the State Executive Committee held in Ado Ekiti on Monday, Agboola, who had been the Chairman of the Repositioning Group, a division of the Ekiti State PDP led by Olujimi, was elected as the official State Chairman.
The Deputy Chairman, Hon. Lanre Omolase, who has been serving as Chairman and State Secretary, Mrs. Funmi Ogun, acknowledged this in a statement.
The statement read in part: “At the Exco meeting of the PDP, Ekiti State, which held at the State Secretariat of the Party, at the instance of the Chairman (Acting) – Hon. Lanre Omolase, on Monday, 4th July, 2022, the quorum at attendance being over and above one-third of the total membership of the Exco, deliberated on the need to appoint a substantive Chairman for our Party, in accordance with the Party’s Constitution.
“Article 47(6) of the Constitution of our great Party, the People’s Democratic Party, provides that: ‘Where a vacancy occurs in any of the offices of the party, the Executive Committee at the appropriate level shall appoint another person from the area or zone where the officer originated from to serve out the tenure of the officer.’
“Accordingly and in view of the resignation of our erstwhile Party Chairman Hon Bisi Kolawole, who became our party flagbearer at the recent Ekiti State Governorship Election, the State executive committee members present deliberated on an appropriate and capable stalwart from the same zone as our erstwhile Chairman and unanimously appointed Hon. Alaba Agboola as substantive Chairman, to serve out the remainder of the tenure of our said erstwhile Chairman.