Fayose wants PDP National chairmanship ceded to South West

As the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) embarks on restructuring, Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has expressed the position that the national chairmanship of the party be ceded to the South-West zone of the country. This was expressed on the heels of the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Bala Mohammed, visit to Ado-Ekiti, apparently to consult on his ambition to emerge as the next national chairman of the party.

Speaking yesterday when Mohammed paid him a private visit, the governor said since the South-West and South- South had previously produced the President of the country, the North was supposed to produce the next presidential candidate of the party.

According to him, the North would not be able to produce both the presidential candidate as well as the national chairman of the party at the same time. Fayose also opined that the time was not right for the party to have a substantive chairman and that the present care-taker chairman, Mr. Uche Secondus, should be allowed to pilot the affairs of the party for the next five months, to enable him conclude the ongoing restructuring of the party. Fayose said: “It is a normal thing to have ambition.

It’s a good development but in my opinion, I think the party needs the caretaker committee now rather than a substantive chairman. The ex-minister, who was in Ekiti in company with Ambassador Liya Damagon and Ahmed Gulak, former Special Adviser on Political Matters to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, met with Governor Fayose behind closed door.