Some aggrieved leaders of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ekiti State on Saturday boycotted the party’s State Congress to elect new party executives.
Prominent members such as the Special Adviser to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu; former Minister of Work Prince Dayo Adeyeye and Senator Tony Adeniyi were conspicuously absent at the popular Ekiti Parapo Pavilion, the venue of the exercise.
Our reporter, who monitored the peaceful congress at the Ekiti Parapo Pavilion, observed that delegates passed through all the electoral procedures before affirming the elected executives in an orderly manner.
Those who emerged as the executives in the Congress supervised by 6-member National Congress Committee chaired by Alhaji Yusuf Galambi are: Hon. Paul Omotoso, who was returned as State Chairman while Sola Elesin was also retained as Deputy Chairman.
Others are: Segun Dipe (Publicity Secretary); Mrs. Asinkun Sunday (Youth Leader); Mrs. Mary Afuye (Women Leader); Barrister Wale Adeyeye (Legal Adviser); Hon Isaac Fayiba (Organising Secretary); Hon Omotayo, Kolawole (Welfare Officer); Odekunle Raphael Bankoke (Vice Chairman Central) and Biodun Fatile (Treasurer).
The list also includes Akindele Akinbobola (Vice Chairman, South) and Ayo Kolawole (Vice Chairman North) among other executives that were elected at the congress.
Speaking after the exercise, Governor Kayode Fayemi urged the Omotoso-led state executive to work hard and unify the party ahead of the 2022 governorship poll slated for June 18.
Fayemi said: “In this congress, all the available positions were resolved consensually and this brought about this peace. That is what we are in Ekiti APC. We are about peace, unity and unanimity of purpose. I am happy that this goes without any disturbance.”
