Kwara PDP reaffirms Ajibola's candidacy

Date: 2014-12-24

The controversy surrounding the election of Senator Simeon Sule Ajibola as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kwara state resonated on Tuesday with members of the state executives of the party reaffirming its stand to queue behind the candidacy of the lawmaker.

The party querried its state Chairman, Chief Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, for conniving with some Abuja-based members of the party to destroy it in a desperate bid to manipulate the outcome of the primaries in favour of anointed candidates who failed at the congresses.

The state PDP executive also took a swipe at Minister of National Planning, Dr Abubakar Olanrewaju Suleiman and Hajia Bola Shagaya for holding the party to ransom in their alleged plot to alter the results of the gubernatorial primary.

The Deputy Chairman of the party, Alhaji Attahiru Manko, who addressed a press conference alongside other members of the state executive committee at the party Secretariat in Ilorin, argued that the statement credited to the party Chairman that the results of the primaries could not be declared without recourse to the National Secretariat of the party portrayed him and his sponsors as bad losers.

He said the action of the embattled chairman was capable of denting the image of the party further.

Manko urged the National leadership of the party not to tamper with the result of the primaries, warning that any attempt to tinker with the outcome of the primaries may end in implosion that would not augur well for the party.

He said, "We have noted with dismay, the seeming controversy surrounding the emergence of a few of the candidates, particularly those of the gubernatorial, as duly won by Senator Simeon Sule Ajibola and the Kwara Central Senatorial District, won by Mallam Yinka Aluko, is not only needless but also clearly uncalled for.

"It is worrisome that accusing fingers have been pointed at no less a person than the Chairman of the party in the state, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo. From all accounts, it is obvious that it is the Chairman, in connivance with a few self-styled Abuja-based members of the PDP in Kwara State, are the ones behaving in a way that could destroy the party all in a desperate bid to manipulate the outcome of the primaries in favour of the so called anointed candidates who failed at the primaries.

"It is regrettable that the Chairman of our party, who swore to an oath of fidelity to the party ideals, would be discrediting the same party, its aspirants and even the delegates that freely elected them. His claim that "until the National leadership of the party affirms and announces the candidature (of Ajibola), the state could not claim to have one (a governorship candidate) yet" flies in the face of logic.

"It has clearly exposed the Chairman as one with dangerous motives that are capable of further denting the image of the party. We are therefore constrained to ask, is the Chairman expecting the National secretariat of the PDP to alter the result of a primary that all party stakeholders, including co-aspirants and elders of the party have adjudged to be free and fair?" he queried.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Moji Makanjuola     Ramat Oganija     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     COVID-19 Palliatives     Share     Bashir Badawi     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Garba Dogo     Post Utme     Oko Erin     Moses Afolayan     Joseph Bamigboye     John Mayokun Dada     SDP     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Olayinka Olaogun     Joseph Daudu     Umar Gunu     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Modupe Oluwole     Ogidi-Oloje     First Lady     Ojuekun Sarumi     IQRA College     Balogun Gambari     Kwara University Of Education     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Oniwasi Agbaye     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Tayo Alao     Folorunsho Alao     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Isaac Gbenle     Talaka Parapo     Oba Of Jebba     Lanre Issa Onilu     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Igbaja     Timothy Akangbe     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Dunmade     Prince Bola Ajibola     Jalala     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Garment Factory     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Ajayi Okasanmi     NULGE     Kisra     Suleman Abubakar     Share/Tsaragi     Laduba     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Ibrahim Mohammed     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Balogun Fulani     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Olupako Of Share     Ishaq Oloyede     Magaji Nda     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Abdulwahab Ololele     Iqra Books     Imam Gambari     Sayomi     Third Estate     Musibau Akanji     Trader Moni     Shaaba Lafiagi     Afetu Of Alabe     EFCC    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Temi Kolawole     Ndakene     Odo-Owa     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Unilorin     KWTV     Emir Of Yashikira     Aminat Ahmed     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Council Of The Wise     Code Of Conduct     Seun Bolaji     Bola Sagaya     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Ramadhan     Alaro     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Kayode Ibrahim     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Kwara 2019     Binta Sulyman     Yusuf Lawal     Mohammed Lawal     Lawal Jimoh     Alabi Lawal     Bisi Oyeleke     Siraj Oyewale     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Isiaka Alikinla     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Revenue Court     Ekiti     Saadu Alanamu     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Tosin Saraki     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Olaiya Zuberu     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Wasiu Onidugbe     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     SWAN     Jimoh Akani     Halimah Perogi     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Haliru Yahaya     Aremu Odolaye     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Jalala     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Prince Bola Ajibola     Ilorin International Airport     Issa Oloruntogun     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Hamza Usman     HICA     Ibrahim Taiwo     Harafat E. Mukadam     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Fulani     College Of Health     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Oyedepo     JAMB     Ilorin South     Bello Bature     Ibrahim Akaje     NIRSAL     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Jare Olatundun     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Jumoke Gafar     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Rueben Parejo