Consensus Divides Ekiti PDP

By Augustine Adah

Barely one month to the state congress of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP) in Ekiti State, the party appears to be tilting towards internal crisis over the method to be adopted in electing party officers for the state.

While the party elders have adopted consensus arrangement for the emergence of party executives in the state, a chairmanship aspirant, Dr Tope Aluko has dissociated himself from such arrangement.

Aluko who strongly opposed the arrangement, warned that such approach would throw the state into unimaginable crisis that would be difficult to resolve by the party leaders.

 Aluko who spoke to journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday said, the arrangement is a calculated attempt to impose candidate on the party.

He said,   “I was at the forum where we met with the PDP elders. It was more of consultation by Hon. Kolawole and the endorsement by the elders doesn’t translate to any form of consensual agreement in our party.

“The Constitution of the party is very clear, once any of the aspirants insists on election, consensus can’t work, it can’t be imposed.

“A lot of groups have adopted my aspiration and I never regarded this as consensual agreement. The proponents of consensus are causing confusion among our members”.

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