The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has disclosed the outcome of the emergency meeting of the Sen Ahmed Makarfi’s faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Addressing reporters in Abuja after the meeting, the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum announced that the party’s organs agreed to appeal the judgment and members passed a vote of confidence on the party’s National Caretaker committee led by Makarfi.
According to Fayose, “We equally condemned the police for sealing the original venue of this meeting, the International Conference Centre.
“We are not in a banana republic; opposition must have life. Part of democracy is a virile opposition that can keep government of the day on it toes.’’
Recall that an Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had on Friday last week affirmed the former Borno State Governor as the authentic National Chairman of the party.
A three-man panel of judges in a unanimous decision agreed that the former Borno State Governor is the authentic National Chairman of the party.
Against this backdrop, Makarfi had called for an emergency stakeholders meeting with the venue scheduled for the International Conference Center, ICC, in Abuja.
However, security operatives barricaded the entrance to the venue and the meeting was shifted to Ekiti governor’s residence.
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