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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has emerged chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, (PDPGF). He was made chairman at a meeting of the PDPGF, Board of Trustees (BoT) and the National Assembly Caucus, held in Abuja on Thursday night and ended in the early hours of Friday.
The emergence followed the expiration of the tenure of Olusegun Mimiko as Governor of Ondo State. Mimiko was chairman of the Forum after former Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State.
Briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State also said that the PDP chieftains had a very fruitful deliberation on the state of the nation and the party.