Ekiti PDP Group Backs SWC, Denies Swearing-in Of Fictitious Executives.
Press Statement
Our attention has been drawn to a purported inauguration of Ward Executives in Ekiti state on 30th April 2020 by one Barrister Niyi Idowu who is based in Lagos and not a member of our party, PDP.
We wish to state categorically that no such inauguration ever took place in Ekiti State and we stand solidly by the position of the State Executive Committee of the Party as expressed by its Chairman Barrister Gboyega Oguntuase to the effect that the said purported inauguration has no basis in law and fact should be disregarded.
Our people should learn lessons from the pronouncement of our Courts to the effect that only the State organ of a Party can inaugurate its local chapters. This is the extant position of the law as pronounced by a High Court in Calabar just a few days ago.
The true position of events in Ekiti State is that only the Ward Executives elected on 7th March 2020 conducted by the PDP and monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, and security agencies in line with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999 as amended) and Section 85 and 86 of the Electoral Act remain authentic and have assumed to work as from 1st May 2020.
As the tenure of the last Ward Executive ended at 12 mid night on 30th April 2020, the tenure of the authentic Ward Executives begins from today and they have been duly inaugurated and begun to function.
We charge the new Ward Executives to carry every member of the party along in decision making and embark on aggressive mobilization of all factions in their various Wards in building a united, cohesive and well grounded People's Democratic Party in Ekiti State.
We congratulate them and wish them a successful tenure in office.
Signed;
Engr. Alaba Agboola
Chairman, Ekiti PDP Repositioning Movement
May 1st, 2020
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