Ekiti: South-West PDP leaders meet on reconciliation today

Buoyed by its overwhelming victory in Ekiti State two weeks ago, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have realised that ending factional crises in other South-West states is the key to its winning control of the region. To this end, the national leadership of the PDP has assigned the task of reconciling warring leaders in the state chapters to one of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) members, Chief Olabode George. George, Nigerian Tribune gathered, has summoned a meeting of all the PDP leaders to his Abuja residence today with a view to resolving the crises and get the South- West PDP leaders to sing in unison. Meanwhile, ahead of the meeting, the Oyo State chapter of the PDP has called on the national leadership to ensure that leaders who enjoy mass followership and acceptance across the state are put in charge of the party. The chairman of the Olubadan Stadium-produced executive of the PDP, Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha made the call in a statement signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Mr Lukman Agboluaje. The state PDP, while expressing solidarity for the peace meeting, urged the leaders to ensure that issues that would permanently harmonise the factions in the party are discussed. According to it, only when this is done that the winning streak of the party set in motion by the convincing victory of Mr Ayodele Fayose, the Ekiti governor-elect, can be sustained. While expressing confidence in the capability of the zonal and national leadership of the party to reconcile the various interests in the party, particularly in Oyo State, the party urged its teeming members to remain resolute in their loyalty to the party. “With this kind of meeting, we are optimistic that contending issues within the party will soon be resolved, as the outcome of Ekiti election has further confirmed that only a united party with people-oriented leadership can win elections in the zone,” the statement said.