The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Ekiti state received an eviction notice this week reportedly because of unpaid rent.
The landlord of the property, a two-term state PDP chairman and now a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ropo Adesanya, said the PDP issued him a dud cheque.
Punch reports that Benin Electricity Distribution Company has also disconnected the electricity supply to the party secretariat because of unpaid bills.
It was gathered that Adesanya, who was the PDP state chairman for eight years including Fayose’s tenure, is asking for N1.5 million as owed rent.
Describing the situation as ‘very embarrassing,’ the acting chairman of the PDP in the state, Tunde Olatunde, confirmed that the cheque issued to Adesanya was not honoured by the bank.
Olatunde heads a faction which has 14 state working committee members and 51 members of SEC who are in the majority.
He explained that Adesanya had already forwarded a petition to the Ekiti commissioner of police, Etop James, about the matter.
He said, “The truth of the matter is that our party has been ejected for not paying our rent by our landlord, Chief Ropo Adesanya, who was our party chairman for eight years and who produced Mr. Governor in his first term.
“We are owing the man N1.5m and we issued him a cheque of our account in an old generation bank that has about N17m at the time we were using it but mysteriously, the cheque was not honoured for no just cause.
“Chief Ropo Adesanya has petitioned the Commissioner of Police for the issuance of dud cheque and the police have confirmed that there is money in that account.
“The twist in the story is that Mr. Governor is saying that Adesanya bought the house nearly 10 years ago when they sent him (Fayose) on exile,” Olatunde said.
