“Our coming here today is not to endorse a particular aspirant it is for the generality of the people.” OndoState PDP Nigeria
, party faithful have expressed anxiety as to what the outcome will be. They want to see if the party will survive the many troubles that have dogged its heels in recent times.
Ajayi ditched the ruling APC party and is keen to contest against Akeredolu in the forthcoming governorship election. But this is not without some misgivings from other PDP aspirants and their supporters, who accuse him of disrupting the party with his entrance so late in the day. He formally joined the party on Sunday June 21, 2020 and was received in Akure by the National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, who led other National Working Committee members of the party to receive him.
Within four weeks of joining, Ajayi has changed the political narratives of the party and state at large, even as the Akeredolu-led government accused him of re-enacting the political scenario of Ajasin-Omoboriowo saga. The first face-off between the major PDP contenders, Jegede and Ajayi, was the rumour that the party leadership had brokered a compromise, which stipulated that the former had agreed to be a running mate to the latter.
“Ordinarily, it is up to Agboola Ajayi to do what I think is honourable by resigning himself if he feels he could no longer cooperate with the man who placed a level of trust in him to assist him in doing his job,” he said. During the PDP ad hoc delegate congress a few days ago, aspirants and their supporters protested that the committee members and some party leaders connived with the deputy governor to alter the delegates’ list in his favour. They called for the immediate arrest of the Secretary of the PDP Ward congresses Electoral Committee for Ondo State, Mr. Kingsley Chinda, saying he colluded to add 101 fake delegates into the adhoc delegates’ list.
Enikuomehin warned that the law court would do the needful for PDP if the party leadership failed to disqualify him, alluding to the unfortunate judgment against Bayelsa State a few months ago. He explained that the appeal for the disqualification of Ajayi was based on a suit filed at an Ondo State High Court by a member of the PDP, Ayenuberu Eganosi.
“We urge the leadership of the party in Abuja to look critically at this matter and have this thing addressed. If we do not do the needful, the court will do the needful for us.” He premised his confidence on his past records as a former commissioner, member of the state’s Tenders’ Board for six years and chairman of Conference of Attorneys-General for the 36 states of the federation.
He assured him that all the 114 delegates in Akure South had signed up to a common agreement to vote for him, saying Jegede has the wealth of experience to manage the affairs of the state better than any other aspirant. While speaking on age falsification and certificate scandals against his boss, Sowore disclosed that there was a Court of Appeal judgment, which vindicated him from the blackmail sponsored to whittle down his aspiration.
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