A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
group in South West, on Sunday rejected the candidacy of Bode George and other
aspirants vying for the party’s chairmanship stool.
The group known as Oodua PDP
Alliance, while expressing its support for Uche Secondus, said the geopolitical
zone should seek for another position in the party because the zone was not the
base of the PDP.
In a statement signed by the
leader of the group, Hakeem Ogunsola, who is one of the party leaders in Osun
State, said it would support Secondus, who served as the chairman of the PDP
National Working Committee between 2015 and 2016.
Ogunsola stated, “We want to note
that rebuilding the PDP and winning power back in 2019 demand a chairman with
solid home base, deep experience and capacity to face the power of incumbency,
we need Secondus to lead these electoral and political battles to rescue Nigeria
and change the fake change.
“How can you be going for
chairmanship when there are better bargains to strike? How can you hope to lead
the party when your zone is not a stronghold of the PDP? We don’t want party
chairman in the South-West. Let Secondus have it,” the statement read in part.
The group said that it had
commenced advocacy and mobilisation for Secondus’ emergence as the PDP
chairman, urging the South-West aspirants to drop their ambition and bargain
for better positions in government.
However, George had insisted that
by the experience that he had garnered over the years, he remained the best
candidate for the position.
“We operate before with impunity
without recourse to the constitution of the party. This time, God willing, we
will respect the constitution. Our members should rest assured that the era of
impunity is over.
“Anybody who intentionally
disobeys the party’s constitution should be shown the yellow card. We have to
be committed and loyal to the party’s constitution,” George said.
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