A former Minister of Education and chieftain of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Professor Tunde Adeniran, have said that it is
not impossible that external forces were behind the crisis rocking the
Ekiti State chapter of the party.Adeniran, who addressed newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, on the crisis rocking the Ekiti chapter of the party, expressed the belief that the disagreements among the members of the party was not as bad as
it is being painted, saying it was not impossible that some of the actors in the disagreement were being influenced by forces outside the party.
Adeniran, who served as minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, also disclosed that he was still in the race for the position of National Secretary of the PDP in the coming national convention of the party.
He stated that it was lamentable for the PDP to have opened its flanks, for the opposition party to operate over controversies on the adoption of consensus in selecting the governorship candidate.
He said his aspiration for the position of secretary of the party is enjoying wide support from the six geo-political zones of the country.
It would be recalled that the party had been embroiled in crisis over consensus issue, culminating in the suspension of the former governor Ayodele Fayose, PDP Chairman in the State, Mr Makanjuola Ogundipe and four others from the party.
Adeniran, who described the crisis rocking the party as needless, stated that there is need for Nigeria to rework its electoral process to stamp out monetisation of the process and the purchase of the electorate or delegates by moneybag.
