Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has reacted to his suspension by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Daily Report Nigeria reports that the PDP announced the suspension of Fayose, former President of the Senate, Pius Anyim; Prof Dennis Ityavyar, and Aslam Aliyu on Thursday.
The party effected their suspension on the grounds of anti-party activities following a vast review of the affairs of the party.
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It based its decision on the provisions of the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017).
Furthermore, the PDP referred the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom to the National Disciplinary Committee for his alleged involvement in anti-party activities.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba.
The PDP urges all leaders, critical stakeholders and teeming members of our party across the country to remain united and focused at this critical time,” the PDP’s statement read.
However, Fayose, in a statement through his media aide, Lere Olayinka described his suspension by the Senator Iyorchia Ayu-led National Working Committee as “the last kick of a dead horse.”
The former governor also said:
“Ayu and his cohorts are only entertaining themselves with the purported suspension as their latest comedy skit.”
Fayose went on to claim that he and others who stood by the party when Ayu and his cohorts left it to die.
He promised to rescue the PDP and give life back in due course.
He said:
“The purported suspension will have no leg to stand.”
On his part, Ortom, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur, said the PDP National Working Committee was acting in contempt of a subsisting Court Order by referring him to the disciplinary committee of the party over alleged anti-party activities.
Governor Ortom also said that it was contemptuous of the party’s leadership to disregard the Court Order which barred the party or any organ of the party from issuing any disciplinary measure against him.
He said:
“I think the national leadership of our great party is losing its sense of direction. Instead of the leadership to sit back and think of ways of how to rebuild the party from the ruins of the defeat from the just concluded elections, they are going about chasing imaginary shadows.
“In any case, the first person the party should refer to the disciplinary committee should be the national chairman of the party, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu. The national chairman lost his polling unit, lost his ward, local government, and even the state.”
