Fayose Battles Mimiko Over Governors' Forum Chairmanship Position

PDP set to boil as highly controversial Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has rejected Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko as chairman of the party’s Governors’ Forum.

Fayose has lobbied other Governors in the party to join his campaign against Mimiko’s emergence.

 

He has petitioned the national leadership of the party to intervene before the matter degenerates into a full blown crisis.
Fayose has become a tough thorn on the flesh of others in the PDP circle with his never-quit attitude.

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 became chairman of the Forum last week at 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.