More crises appear to be brewing among the ranks of members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West as a group within its members on Wednesday dismissed the suspension of the Zonal Chairman of the party, Chief Ishola Filani, from office.
The group, under the aegis of South-West PDP Leadership Forum, which met in Abuja, called on the National Working Committee of the party to dismiss the suspension.
Fulani was suspended by the members of the executive committee of the South-West PDP at Ibadan on September 3.
He was subsequently ordered to leave office and stop from parading himself as the vice chairman of the party in the zone.
But the South-West PDP leaders said their intervention in the crisis was geared towards discouraging any form of crisis within the South-West PDP with the 2015 general elections fast approaching.
The PDP leaders, during their meeting, which lasted more than five hours, dismissed the suspension of Filani, saying the action was illegal.
Convener of the meeting, Chief Olabode George, said those who suspended Filani lacked the power to do so as the constitution of PDP stipulates that only the National Executive Council of PDP has such power.
He added that those who suspended the PDP South-West Caretaker Chairman failed to explore the normal channel of effecting such action since they did not lodge a formal complaint against him before announcing his suspension.
George stressed that the suspension of Filani by members of the South-West Caretaker Committee was inappropriate because it was capable of breaking the fragile peace in the South-West PDP.
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