A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Otunba Segun Adewale (Aeroland), has enjoined the national body of the party to do things right by fixing a new date for the conduct of fresh State Congress for Lagos State chapter of PDP, insisting that the exercise held on February 27, 2022, in the state was allegedly fraught with too many irregularities.
Adewale, a former chairman of the party in the state, made this call while speaking with newsmen, noting that if the process for the last Congress was not queried by well-meaning PDP faithful now, it might foreclose the party’s chances of fielding a candidate in 2023.
According to him, the Independent National Electoral Commission (lNEC) delegates were unable to even generate a result for the exercise, just as he said that the Chairman of the Electoral Committee for the Congress, Governor Duoye Diri, left the venue after announcing four out of the 39 keenly contested positions.
The politician cum businessman posited that going by the partial announcements, “litigations may arise, as only 4 (four) ballot boxes out of 39 were collated and results announced, leaving 35 boxes behind unattended to.”
This was just as Otunba Adewale recalled that the party in the state had earlier agreed on consensus arrangement to pick the new exco of PDP in Lagos based on consultations among the leaders, including Chief Olabode George, Dr Bimbo Ogunkelu, among others, expressing surprise that “the umpire changed the goal post while the match is being played.”
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“My point is that I was privy to a parley between the electoral committee Chairman and leaders of our party in Lagos prior to the Congress, like Chief Bode George, Dr Bimbo Ogunkelu and other leaders of thought and they all agreed to have a consensus, not an elective congress. I was surprised to see the umpire change the goal post while the match is being played.
“Governor Diri declared at the congress ground that the leaders agreed on a consensus and that is what will be upheld there.
“Thereafter, many delegates left after that announcement believing it would be a mere ratification of a pre-agreed list of those chosen. And relying on his announcement, I left the venue. It was later I was informed that election commenced much later,” he said.
“I maintained that let it be a win-win situation, such that no one particular group or caucus will take the lead, thus leading us to nowhere, as parallel exco will emerge again,” he warned.
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