Chief John Filani, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Ekiti Statem has stated that all is not well with the party.
Filani expressed fear that unless the national leaders intervene and put things in order, the party may again lose the next governorship elections scheduled for 2018 to the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He said this while speaking to reporters in Ado Ekiti on Thursday on the state of affairs of the party.
Filani said: “An average member of the APC in Ekiti State is not happy way the leadership of the party is being run. The state exco has disconnected itself from the masses; we need to do more work if we want APC to regain power in Ekiti in 2018.
“Going by the present situation of our party, if the APC is not careful, the PDP may win again in 2018. We have 177 wards in the state and hardly can we boast that our members are happy in 160 out of the 177 wards.
“At the moment, PDP has more members in the grassroots than the APC in Ekiti and if election is held today, 16-0 may repeat itself because the exco members are not making party members happy.
“The APC leaders n the state are very selfish and they are pursuing personal interests and that is why I am scared that unless we put our house in order, we may lose the governorship election again in 2018.
“The reality is that PDP members are more than us and we claim that we are the party at the centre but there is no reflection at home. The party is not on ground contrary to what they are making our leaders up there to believe.
“We want the National Chairman, Chief Odigie-Oyegun, National Leader Asiwaju Tinubu to hear this: Ekiti chapter needs their intervention and majority of our members in the grassroots are aggrieved, they are not happy with the way the party is being run and there must be genuine reconciliation.”