As the 2023 general elections gather momentum, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential campaign Committee, PCC, was on Tuesday, December 27, 2022, inaugurated in Ekiti State, with a charge that Nigerians should vote out the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Eddy Olafeso, who represented Governor Aminu Tambuwal, at the inauguration urged PDP members to work together to defeat APC and its beneficiaries in the country.
Olafeso said Nigerians have witnessed the worst Christmas ever in history, charged electorates to use their PVCs to defeat the APC and vote for Atiku and Okowa, the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates of the party in the 2023 general elections.
Olafeso, who inaugurated the State campaign council and the state campaign manager committee, condemned the leadership styles of the APC who according to him, have plunged Nigeria into numerous problems without solutions.
In his address, the Acting Chairman, of Ekiti PDP presidential campaign council, PCC, Chief Ogundipe Makanjuola, said what is required is the unalloyed commitment to winning the presidential election in the next two months so that the PDP can revamp the battered economy of Nigeria.
Makanjuola, call on PDP supporters to go out to galvanize support for the PDP and the incoming President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 general elections.
“We have been handed a very strategic task, a very challenging assignment, but by the special grace of God, it is not insurmountable, we shall succeed”
Other members inaugurated included Rt. Hon. Tunji Odeyemi, Secretary of the PCC, former lawmakers, chairmen, secretaries, BoT members, former lawmakers and serving, state youth leader, and all local government party chairmen, among others.
Ekiti PDP Management Committee, which was also inaugurated include, including Sen. Duro Faseyi, North, Mr. Diplo Anisulowo, Central, and Prof. Kolapo Olusola Eleka, South while Mrs. Yemisi Afolabi, is the Secretary.
The event was attended by many loyalists of the party from the 16 local government councils.
Delta: Hoodlums Disrupt APC Campaign Event, Abduct Former PDP Youth Leader
There was tension in Aladja Community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State following the disruption of an All Progressives Congress Party, APC, event, organised by a former youth leader, Obaro Matthew Jagogo at Ward 10.
The hoodlums stormed the event, alleging that Jagogo was owing them the sum of four hundred thousand naira.
They told the crowd of visitors already seated that they did not come for anyone but Jagogo and thereafter bundled him into a waiting car and brought down canopies.
They also chased the DJ away.
Comrade Jagogo had organized the event with the intention of dumping the PDP for the All Progressives Congress for reasons best known to him before the incident occurred.
The likes of Collins Egbetamah, a House of Assembly candidate, Keston Okoro, and Williki were being expected at the event when the hoodlums stormed the area at Ekregware Quarters in Aladja community.
When approached for comments, the APC Ward 10 Chairman in the Aladja community, Mr. Abeyi Lucky who was at the scene boarding a commercial motorcycle in solidarity with Jagogo said, “it is just a scene we did not expect”.
At the time of this report, there were fears that the incident might cause a crisis between the APC and the opposition in the community.
Source: Vanguard
