According to the Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Jackson Adebayo, the party also announced the setting-up of a seven-man disciplinary committee to probe allegations of anti-party activities levelled against the five people.
Adebayo said the affected persons were: Tunde Olatunde, who until he was made acting state chairman by a faction, was the Vice-Chairman (North) and Tope Aluko, the state secretary; Mrs Busola Oyebode (Women Leader); Tunji Olanrewaju (State Auditor); and Femi Esan (Assistant Secretary).
According to him, the decision was reached at the end of a State Executive Committee meeting held at the party's secretariat in Ado-Ekiti, with Adebayo saying the decision was "in line with the provisions of the party's constitution and directives from the National Working Committee of the party on the need to maintain discipline in the party."
He said the seven-man committee would be headed by the party's Legal Adviser, Mr. Kolapo Kolade, with other members as Babade Ige, Animasaun Bamidele, Mrs Lanre Fajuyi, Smart Adebusuyi, Dele Ajibola and Mr. Kola Lawal.
Adebayo claimed that the affected officers had "earlier been suspended at the ward level and that their ward chairmen had written to the SWC on the development."
He said: "It was on the strength of the letters conveying the resolutions of party members in all the wards of the affected officers that the SWC acted and convened a meeting of SEC.
"At the meeting, the required quorum was formed as 43 out of 64 members were in attendance. There are some people whose positions have not been filled and we admitted some elders into the meeting too. We cannot ignore their efforts at calling those fomenting trouble to order.
"All that were done were in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of our party. Those affected will be given a fair hearing," he added.
However, Aluko and Olanrewaju addressed newsmen in reaction to the development and faulted the decision by the SWC led by Chief Idowu Faleye.
Aluko, who spoke on behalf of the aggrieved SWC members, said Faleye did not have the required number of SWC members to suspend them.
“Nobody can push me out of the PDP. I have invested and sweated so much to build the party. But if the party is heading to implosion, then I will take my destiny in my own hands, because nobody has the right to my happiness more than myself.
“PDP in Ekiti is not being run in line with the constitution of the party. If this is the case, it came to me as a shock that the party could come up with this action through Jackson Adebayo and Idowu Faleye, who have been suspended by the authentic PDP leaders.
“Though, we owe it a duty to respect the NWC, but for suspended chairman to do that was a deliberate attempt to destroy the party," he stated.
Meanwhile, in order to forestall any possible breakdown of law and order, the Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State command, Mr Etop John James, has deployed mobile policemen to guard the party's state secretariat.
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