Former Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose
Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, who are automatic delegates for party primaries, have kicked against a consensus arrangement the national leadership of the party is proposing to select its candidate for the 2014 governorship poll.
The leaders, who held a meeting in Ado Ekiti, expressed their support for former Governor Ayo Fayose while some of them advocated that the party should conduct primaries to pick the most popular candidate.
The leaders include current and former local government chairmen of PDP, women leaders, secretaries and treasurers in the 16 local government areas of the state.
The PDP leaders, in a communiqué made available to journalists after the meeting, adopted Fayose, saying he had the capacity and acceptability to wrest power from the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria in the state.
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