A group, Concerned Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Youths, has expressed concern that the ruling party is fast losing ground.
It urged the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to “urgently intervene to arrest the drift in its fortunes”.
In a statement yesterday, its coordinator, Busuyi Omotoso, and secretary Dapo Faleye said many prominent party leaders have adopted a “siddon look” posture and others have concluded plans to defect to opposition parties.
The youth urged the party’s national leadership not to be carried away by the victory recorded at the general election, but to ensure that aggrieved leaders and members were appeased to prevent the state PDP from collapse.
They alleged injustice in the distribution of appointments, saying Ekiti PDP had been turned to a one-man party contrary to the dictates of the party’s constitution.
The statement reads in part: “We also noticed that all the 2014 governorship aspirants are not carried along in governance by so doing, they and their followers are no longer in the party. The aftermath of the kangaroo primaries conducted in the state have turned the party apart.
“In addition, to crown it all, the political imbalances in appointments in the state have worsened the situation. The most recent impunity that could be tagged ugly politicking is the suspension of virtually all the state executives, who suffered and paid through their noses to ensure the party won all the elections in the state – from governorship, presidential, national assemblies and the state house of assemblies.
“The reversal of this unconstitutional, tyrannical decision on the prominent and ever loyal excos is imminent. “We strongly observed that if these abnormalities are not corrected, the party will not win any future elections, no matter how small or big. We the youths are now resolute across the state and vowed not to support the party henceforth. “The National Working Committee (NWC) is hereby advised to step in with immediate effect to ensure that PDP extinction in Ekiti State doesn’t come to reality. “The failure in the political promises made to party faithful that appointments will be in accordance to performance in election and several other agreements have been breached. We detest strongly the injustice in the distribution of the appointments. “This and many more are our grievances and we have no doubt that same is applicable to all that passionately worked for the party in their respective unit, ward and local government. “As a group that has the interest of the party at heart, we want to avert the total destruction that looms and the National Working Committee is hereby called upon to wage in and reconcile the members across the state.”