PDP Mandates Mark To Settle Rift Between Fayose, Adeyeye, Others

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a reconciliation committee headed by former Senate President David Mark to settle the dispute between members of the party in Ekiti state.

Mark, it was learnt, would be assisted by the Deputy Vice Chairman of the party in the South-West, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, and others whose identities have not been revealed.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, confirmed the setting up of the committee to Punch on Monday.

He said: “Yes, it is true we have set up a committee headed by Senator David Mark on Ekiti State. The committee is credible and its members were carefully chosen with a mandate to settle the rift.

“The state is important to us and we don’t want to play with it because after winning there, we will then move to Osun State to liberate them.”

The crisis in Ekiti deepened when Governor Ayodele Fayose allegedly picked his deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, as his successor and the candidate of the party in the coming governorship election.

Aggrieved leaders of the party led by a former National Publicity Secretary of the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, vowed that the adoption would not stand and called on the national leadership of the party to intervene to avoid its defeat in the election.

Apart from Adeyeye, other prominent aggrieved party members are the Senator representing Ekiti-South in the Senate, Abiodun Olujimi and Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Canada, Dare Bejide.