BREAKING: Olujimi’s ally, Agboola emerges as new Ekiti State PDP chairman

Emmanuel AmudaJuly 4, 2022

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Alaba Agboola, the ally of the Senator representative Ekiti South Senatorial District, Biodun Olujimi has emerged as the chairman of Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Agboola replace the party’s governorship candidate in the last election, Hon Bisi Kolawole, who resigned as the State Chairman to contest the governorship.

Engr Agboola hails from Ipoti Ekiti in the Ijero Local government area, the zone where will Bisi Kolawole hailed from to serve out the remainder of the tenure of the erstwhile Chairman.

The appointment of Engr Agboola as the substantive State Chairman was among the resolutions at the State Executive Committee meeting held in Ado Ekiti on Monday.

A statement by the Deputy Chairman, Hon Lanre Omolase, who has been acting as Chairman and State Secretary, Mrs Funmi Ogun read;

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“At the Exco meeting of the PDP, Ekiti State, which held at the State Secretariat of the Party, at the instance of the Chairman (Acting) – Hon. Lanre Omolase, on Monday, 4th July 2022, the quorum at attendance being over and above one-third of the total membership of the Exco, deliberated on the need to appoint a substantive Chairman for our Party, in accordance with the Party’s Constitution.

“Article 47(6) of the Constitution of our great Party, the People’s Democratic Party, provides that: ‘Where a vacancy occurs in any of the offices of the party, the Executive Committee at the appropriate level shall appoint another person from the area or zone where the officer originated from to serve out the tenure of the officer.

“Accordingly and in view of the resignation of our erstwhile Party Chairman Hon Bisi Kolawole, who became our party flagbearer at the recent Ekiti State Governorship Election, the State executive committee members present deliberated on an appropriate and capable stalwart from the same zone as our erstwhile Chairman and unanimously appointed Hon. Alaba Agboola as substantive Chairman, to serve out the remainder of the tenure of our said erstwhile Chairman.

“It was also resolved that Hon. Lanre Omolase, the Chairman (Acting), should revert to his elected post as the Deputy Chairman of our party, PDP, Ekiti State, while the National officials of our great party, corporate organizations, as well as our teeming party members and the general public, be immediately notified of the appointment of our new substantive Party Chairman.”

It should be recalled that Engr Agboola, was the Chairman of the Repositioning Group, a group in the Ekiti State PDP led by Senator Biodun Olujimi.