PDP Sacks S’West Zonal Chairman

Barely a month to the
commencement of its primary elections, the South-West chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sacked its chairman, Chief Ishola Filani.
The crisis in the party took a turn for the worse on Wednesday when 13 members of the South-West caretaker zonal executives passed a vote of no confidence on Filani.
Rising from a marathon executive meeting, which had in attendance the party’s zonal secretary, Chief Pegba Otemolu; Auditor, Adekoye Rasaq; Treasurer, Lanre Orimoloye; Financial Secretary, Banji Obasanmi; Publicity Secretary, Waheed Lawal; Women Leader, Wunmi Euba; Youth Leader, Bolaji Jeje and three of the ex-officio members, the 13 PDP zonal executive members accused Filani of running a ‘one man show administration’ since February 19, 2013 when the executive came on board.
In his stead, the aggrieved members unanimously appointed the treasurer, Lanre Orimoloye as the new acting chairman.
Addressing journalists after the meeting, members cited relevant sections of the PDP’s constitution to back their action and further affirmed it with another section (27, subsection 3 and 4) of the party’s constitution which deals on the quorum of members at the meeting.
The presiding chairman, Tunde Olowofoyeku, who read their seven-point communiqué, said having satisfied the above condition with regards to majority of members who attended and took the decision, there was no going back on Filani’s removal.
Olowofoyeku who said party members from all the six states in the South-West zone were in attendance, stressed that they took the decision in order to ensure that all the problems in the zone were resolved before the primary elections slated for next month.
The zonal executive committee congratulated Ekiti people, the PDP and its governor-elect, Ayo Fayose, on the victory of the party in the June 24 governorship election, and also commended Senator Iyiola Omisore for his significant outing in the Osun State gubernatorial election.