ELECTIONS: PDP ‘scam’ governorship aspirants in Ekiti

The PDP in Ekiti state have allegedly scammed some Ekiti state governorship aspirants. Governorship aspirants on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform in Ekiti State have demanded a refund of the N11 million nomination fee each of them paid before the party’s primaries. The aspirants earlier expressed anger that they were made to pay a non-refundable fee of N11 million each to the party despite alleged schemes to choose one of them, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, as the candidate. In a May 31 communiqué given to reporters yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, they decried the non- chalant attitude of the party’s national leadership on the issue. They warned that their group “would not attend the rally of Saturday where the President is to be in attendance to express our displeasure”. The communiqué, signed by the group’s chairman, Senator Gbenga Aluko and co-ordinator, Abiodun Aluko, reads: “We observed with dismay the non- chalant attitude of the national leadership of our party to our four-point demand which Mr. President asked the National Chairman to handle. “We are equally dismayed and extremely disappointed by the contempt and value-loss we have been subjected to by the candidate of the party, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, and state party executive. “We feel extremely constrained and have therefore, resolved to let the leadership of the party know that, unless our demands are met, particularly the refund of the nomination fee which the party cajoled us to pay under the false pretence that they would use consensus to pick our candidate, we would not attend the rally of Saturday where the President is to be in attendance to express our displeasure.”