Politics

Fayose’s spokesman joins race for PDP Nat. Pub Sec

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8 years ago

May 2, 2016

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose’s Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, has joined the race to become the next National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The PDP is scheduled to conduct elections into various national offices during its national convention holding in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on May 21, 2016.

It would be recalled that the party’s zoning committee had zoned the offices of National Secretary and that of the National Publicity Secretary to the Southwest geopolitical zone, while the current party spokesman, Olisa Metuh, has said he is done with holding any party position.

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Lere Olayinka, who doubles as the head of the Ekiti State Broadcasting Corporation, is seen by many as the kind of firebrand publicist the PDP needs if it must confront the ruling party headlong as both prepare for 2019 general elections.

His ambition further received a boost on Sunday as he was endorsed by members of the PDP in Germany.

A Communiqué issued at the end a crucial meeting held at Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg, Germany, and signed by the Cordinator of the Party in Germany, Engr Charles Njoku, the chapter said based its decision on Lere’s proven poilitical and communicative skills.

“With Lere Olayinka as the National Publicity Secretary, the repositioning of our great party ahead of 2019 to kick mediocrity out of Aso Rock has started”, the Communiqué said.

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