Why We Overlooked Over-Voting At PDP South West Congress - Ayo Fayose Reveals

 

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has said he and others chose to overlook over-voting at the PDP Southwest zonal congress because of the interest of the party. In the election held on Monday, Governor Seyi Makinde’s candidate, Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja narrowly defeated Fayose’s candidate, Dr. Eddy Olafeso to become the PDP Chairman, Southwest.

Arapaja polled 343 votes to defeat Olafeso, who got 330 votes.

But Fayose, in series of tweets late Monday night congratulated Arapaja on his emergence as the Southwest Zonal Chairman of the PDP.

“Like I said in my speech at the beginning of the congress that we should win together and we have indeed won together.

“Whatever may be our reservations on the problem of over-balloting, we've got chosen to have a look at the larger photo, which is the PDP.

“We must therefore use our electricity and resources to rebuild the celebration,” he said.

Fayose introduced: “Arapaja’s 343 and Olafeso’s 330 votes, has absolutely shown power on the 2 sides, this must be explored by means of the birthday party, going ahead.

“I thank the National Working Committee (NWC) for assisting to convey this congress behind us.”

At the congress, Fayose and Makinde settled their rift and reconciled, with Fayose accepting Makinde as his Southwest leader.

In his feedback, Makinde defined the congress as a family affair and also an attempt to reposition the PDP inside the SouthWest.

“This election is a own family affair and additionally an attempt to reposition the PDP in the South-West and the final results may have implications for our party on the country wide degree. We don’t need to defeat ourselves however as an alternative we want to defeat the opposition.

“As the most effective PDP governor inside the SouthWest, I will paintings with all of us who emerges because the chairman within the zone and I will work with the crew to reposition our birthday celebration,’’ Makinde stated.