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Delta State Governor and Chairman of Committee, Ifeanyi Okowa and delegates on Tuesday morning defied heavy downpour to attend the Ekiti State Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) primaries.
TheNewsGuru reports Governor Okowa and the 2,092 delegates defied the rains and stormed the venue set to conduct the Ekiti PDP Primary Election in Ado-Ekiti
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said PDP will be going back to Aso Villa come 2019 Presidential elections.
A total of 2,092 delegates are expected to take part in the gubernatorial primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to choose its flag bearer among the three contending candidates.
Out of this, there are 1,585 statutory delegates while elected national and ad-hoc delegates total 491.
The party has already appointed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state to head the primary election committee while its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus is to head the primary appeals committee which will begin seating on Monday.
All members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party are also members of the appeals committee.
A total of 51 persons who had been elected as delegates from various local governments were withdrawn from the delegates’ list because they are government officials who did not resign their appointments before contesting.
But the party was unable to replace the withdrawn delegates because of the shortness of time.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, confirmed on Monday that all measures have been put in place to ensure a hitch-free congress, noting that all the aspirants have agreed to work together.
The aspirants are the current deputy governor of the state, Prof. Kolapo Eleka; former national spokesman of the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye and serving Senator, Biodun Olujimi.
Ologbondiyan observed that the processes leading to primary were transparent, noting that this accounted for why nobody was complaining.
He was confident that the Congress will be peaceful as he pointed out that there will not be a repeat of the violence witnessed during the conduct of the Congress of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state.
