- Ogun PDP Chairman, Ogundele Assures of Unity, Victory
With the release of the list of candidates to contest the
councillorship and chairmanship positions in the forthcoming elections
in the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas
(LCDA) by the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC), it
appeared that Senator Buruji Kashamu faction of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in the State has again lost out to the Hon Ladi Adebutu
led faction.
Candidates submitted by the Hon. Sikirulai Olawale Ogundele led State
Exco of the PDP were listed among those to contest in the election.
While Senator Kashamu faction belong to Senator Ali Modu Sheriff
factional National Working Committee of the PDP, Hon Adebutu faction
belong to the Senator Ahmed Makarfi led Caretaker Committee.
Meanwhile, Hon. Sikirulai Olawale Ogundele has reiterated the need for
party members to be united in order to achieve victory at the polls.
Hon. Ogundele who stated this in a press statement in his reaction to
the publication of the list by OGSIEC, said that the PDP has a lot of
works to do to take over the governance of the state from the All
Progressives Congress (APC), which he said has mismanaged the local
councils in the state over the years.
According to the state’s PDP chairman, “all members and leaders of
the party across the length and breadth of the state should rise up
now more than ever before, and move out enmasse to campaign for all
the candidates of the party and ensure their resounding victory at the
local government polls”
Ogundele, in the statement, which was signed on his behalf by the
Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Ogun State, Mr. Malik Olamilekan
Ibitoye, added that the list finally put paid to the controversy
surrounding the exercise and rested anxieties about the internal
rancour among members of the party in the state.
He maintained that the people of Ogun State were already tired of the
APC government, which he said is masquerading as “change agents” and
have been clamoring for alternatives, while calling on all
stakeholders in the party to join hands with him to steer the ship of
the party to victory in future elections.
He also called on Senator Buruji Kasamu, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, Hon.
(Aremo) Adesegun Adekoya; all elected past and current members of the
Houses of Assembly, Representatives and the Senate; former Speaker,
Rt. Hon. Dimeji Bankole and former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba
Gbenga Daniel to rally round the present party executives in the state
in order to deliver electoral victory for the party now and in 2019,
while asuring all party members of a level playing field to exercise
their mandate and express their full political aspirations and
potentials.
Ogundele used the opportunity to commend OGSIEC ‘for being on the side
of justice and peace,’ while calling on all former state executives of
the party, especially the immediate past State chairman, Engineer Bayo
Dayo and members of his State Working Committee to join hands with him
to rescue the state from what he called directionless and visionless
leadership now and in the nearest future.
“Following the recent pronouncement of OGSIEC approving the list of
the candidates we submitted for the October 8 LG elections, I wish to
congratulate all our candidates in the state and encourage all to be
steadfast so that we can have victory in the election.
“The journey has just begun as we must as a matter of urgency embrace
all our brothers and sisters on all sides of the divide. The desired
victory cannot come with divisions and envy but by unity of purpose
and steadfastness.
“We must see the PDP as one indivisible party so that we can achieve
victory in all our elections. Ogun State is ripe for better leadership
so that it can catch up with other developed states in the country,”
he added in the statement.
According to Ogundele, the PDP has all it takes to make Ogun State
better than it is, adding that the local government election would
determine the future of Ogun State, and advised the residents not to
“waste this golden opportunity that would give us developments in the
grassroots”and urged them to cast their votes for the PDP.
Malik Olamilekan Ibitoye,
State Publicity Secretary,
Peoples Democratic Party, Ogun State
25-08-2016