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Fayose has no respect –Ex PDP chair

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Ekiti State Governor, Peter Ayodele Fayose, has been accused of being overbearing and of disrepecting the constitution of the Peoples Demicratic Party, PDP.

The pioneer Chairman of PDP in Ekiti State, Chief Clement Awoyelu, made the accusation on Thursday, adding that the 
governor also lacked respect for party leaders in the state.

Awoyelu, who said there was a need to reclaim the party from Governor Fayose, spoke during the swearing in of the Chief Williams Ajayi-led faction of the State Executive Committee of the party in Ado Ekiti.

It would be recalled that a Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti had on Tuesday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognise and deal with the Williams Ajayi faction pending the final determination of a suit before it and barring the electoral body and the PDP national secretariat not to relate with the faction loyal to the governor.

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Awoyelu, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, and a former Senate Deputy Chief Whip, said he does not have any personal grudge with Fayose, but that it was important to reclaim the party from the governor so that it would not go into extinction in the state.

Awoyelu said: “I have been in party politics for more than 50 years and that is why we are trying to restructure our party. We will never sleep until we reclaim our party from Governor Fayose. We are ready to correct all the wrongs in our party.

“I have grouse with Fayose in two ways: One, I have never seen a state where governor will be the one to appoint councillorship candidates. This is wrong because it is the duty of the party leaders. He disobeyed the party guidelines.

“Secondly, the governor has appropriated the party to himself. The governor has not attended any meeting at the party secretariat, instead he relocated the party to his house in Afao Ekiti. This, we will not tolerate.

“I have been a member of the PDP National Executive Committee since 1998. Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo , Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan were attending meeting at Wadata Plaza in Abuja. But this is not so under Governor Fayose.

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