PDP suspends 13 members, denies defected ZLP membership in Ondo

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State has suspended 13 members of the party including nine executives members of the party over alleged political indiscipline, rascality and ostentatious display of insubordination.

This is just as the party denied some members of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) who defected to PDP last year the party’s membership, saying they have not fully registered as members of the PDP.

The party leadership in the local government stated that Okunomo and others who defected with former governor Olusegun Mimiko are not members of the party because they have not officially decamped to PDP at the ward level.

They said the constitution of the PDP stipulates that all members of the party must register with the party at their various wards but said the ZLP members only announced their defection at a hotel and were not known to the party.

They stated that the actions and activities of Okunomo and other former ZLP members were unconstitutional, saying the actions of the suspended members contravened section 58(1)F items F, H, I and J of the party’s constitution.

Speaking on the suspension of the 13 members of the party in a communique signed by 10 PDP leaders in the area, which include Johnson Ajimison, Adeniran Oronla, Mandah Akinbulejo, they said the members were suspected of political indiscipline, rascality and ostentatious display of insubordination.

They listed those suspended to include nine executive members including the Youth Leader, Omoseebi Sylvester, and Woman Leader, Ajimisan Omoleye, amongst others.

The communique stated that “As far as PDP Etikan ward is concerned, Hon. Banji Okoumo and his cohorts from ZLP are not members of our party because they have not officially decamped to PDP at the ward level as specified by the party’s constitution.

“The implication is that until they formally decamp from ZLP and are duly registered as members of PDP Etkan ward, their actions and activities within the party are unconstitutional.”

In his reaction, Okunomo said he was granted a waiver when he rejoined the PDP and that the Ward leaders could not determine his membership.

He said Johnson Ajimison was suspended as chairman of the PDP, Etikan Ward, for not calling meetings for the past one year.

“I am a state leader of the party and a bonafide member of the PDP. We were granted waiver when we rejoined the party.”

The entire ZLP structure in Ondo State collapsed into the PDP after former Governor Mimiko returned to the PDP last year.

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