Ayo Fayose, governor of Ekiti
state, has described members of the splinter group of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) as miscreants who should be “arrested and detained”.
Earlier on Wednesday, a group led
by one Emmanuel Obi-Nwosu, opened its own national secretariat in the Asokoro
area of Abuja.
At its inaugural press briefing,
the group described the PDP national convention as a sham, vowing to do
everything within its powers to reclaim the leadership of the party.
Obi-Nwosu, who contested the
national youth leader position and lost, claimed that the process of selecting
the current national working committee (NWC) was concluded days before the
convention.
He called on the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) all other relevant authorities to
disregard the “purported” election of the NWC.
“Most tragically, there was no
election on that day; but a selection of predetermined persons who were
eventually announced as new NWC members,” he had said.
Reacting, Fayose said it was
clear that the enemies of the PDP were at work.
He said the party would never go
back to the era of Ali Modu Sheriff, former factional chairman of the PDP, who
fuelled the crisis in the party.
The governor, who is chairman of
PDP governors, appealed to Nigerians to ignore the “jobless miscreants”.
They are simply charlatans. I
won’t be surprised and we are doing investigations to know those who are behind
them,” he said.
“In a society like Nigeria, where
we need a virile opposition, we need to continually put the government of the
day on its toes for them to know that Nigeria is greater than all of us.
“Some miscreants would just make
press statement and say they are splinter group or whatever they call
themselves. In a proper democracy, they are supposed to have been arrested and
detained for breaching the peace of the society as their action is unwarranted
and uncalled for.
“But we are not going to
celebrate such by making an issue out of it. Nigeria needs peace at all times.
We are not going to go back to the days of Sheriff and co, by giving attention
to those persons making noise all over the place. This party will remain
focused and move on.
“I urge Nigerians to ignore them.
When I saw them on the Internet, they were faceless people I cannot recognise
so they remain a set of jobless miscreants.”
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