Fayose Rejects Mimiko As PDP Governors’ Forum Chairman

A fresh crisis appears to be brewing in the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Ekiti
State Governor Ayo Fayose has rejected
Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko as
chairman of the party’s Governors’ Forum.
Fayose has rallied some other governors
in the party to kick against Mimiko’s
emergence.
He has petitioned the national leadership
of the party to intervene before the
matter degenerates into a full blown
crisis.
A source at the party’s national
secretariat in Abuja was quoted to have
confirmed the receipt of the petition
against Mimiko.
The party’s National Working Committee
(NWC) will be meeting the party’s
governors today to ironing out the
matter.
The aggrieved governors were said to
have protested that the choice of Mimiko
did not follow due process on grounds
that Mimiko defected to the PDP only last
year.
Mimiko emerged chairman of the Forum
last week the governors’ meeting in
Abuja, where only six of the party’s 13
governors and two deputies were
present.
Former Akwa Ibom State Governor,
Godswill Akpabio is the pioneer
chairman of the Forum, a position he
relinquished at the expiration of his
tenure on May 29.