The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) launched its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in Ekiti yesterday, calling on citizens nationwide to cast a significant number of votes for the party’s candidates in the general elections of 2023.
Mr. Eddy Olafeso, the former zonal chairman of the South West PDP, inaugurated the council in Ado-Ekiti and asked PDP supporters in the state to band together and work for the party’s electoral success.
Olafeso claimed that Nigerians had had the worst Christmas in the country’s history and urged voters to utilize their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to support Atiku and Okowa, the party’s candidates for president and vice president, in order to bring about the needed change.
Olafeso, who equally inaugurated the state Campaign Manager Committee, condemned the leadership style of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), alleging that Nigeria had been plunged into numerous problems without solutions.
In his address, the Acting Chairman, Ekiti PDP PCC, Chief Ogundipe Makanjuola, said what is required is the unalloyed commitment of party members towards the winning the Presidential election in the next two months so that the PDP can revamp the battered economy of Nigeria.
Makanjuola called on PDP supporters to go out to mobilise support for the party and all its candidates in the election.
“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,” he said.
Others members inaugurated included Mr Tunji Odeyemi, Secretary of the PCC, former governors and deputy governors, serving and former lawmakers, chairmen, secretaries, BoT members, former lawmakers and serving, state youth leader, all local government party chairmen, including Chief Sanya Atofarati, the PDP Zonal Publicity Secretary, as members, among others.
Members of the Ekiti PDP Management Committee inaugurated included, Sen. Duro Faseyi, North, Mr. Diplo Anisulowo, Central, and Prof. Olusola Eleka, South, while Mrs. Yemisi Afolabi, is the Secretary.
The gathering was attended by many loyalists of the party across the 16 Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas in the state.