Fayose said this on a Channels Television programme: Politics Today, on Wednesday following the conclusion of the South West Congress of the Peoples Democratic Party
Browsing: Eddy Olafeso
The congress was held in Osogbo, Osun State on Monday, with Fayose’s candidate for the chairmanship position, Eddy Olafeso, losing by 330 votes to the candidate of Governor Seyi Makinde, Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja, who polled 343 votes.
The Peoples Democratic Party in Okitipupa Local Government area of Ondo State says it will prune the governorship aspirants from the area to two, ahead of the party’s primaries at the state level.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has told the Peoples Democratic Party that for it to bounce back, it must purge itself of hypocrites and bad eggs.
According to the Campaign Council Director of Media and Publicity, Lere Olayinka, the council is to be chaired by the state’s former Deputy Governor and PDP candidate in the 2018 governorship election, Prof. Kolapo Olusola
Saraki, who is the National Chairman of the Campaign Council for Osun State election, urged residents of the state to vote for PDP during the poll
The Deputy National of the party, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi; the Zonal Chairman, Dr. Eddy Olafeso; Lagos State PDP Chairman, Hon. Moshood Adegoke Salvador; Rev. Bunmi Jenyo, Zonal Secretary (South West); and Arewa Nike, Ex-Officio (South West), had stormed Ladoja’s Bodija, Ibadan residence to assuage the feeling of the former governor over the “much-reported harmonization of the PDP state executive”.
Olafeso was accused of giving undue recognition to the masterminds and proponents of harmonization plot “to destabilise Oyo PDP, thereby usurping and undermining the power of the party’s leadership in Abuja”.