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PDP will participate in Ogun LG polls Saturday ― Shittu

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The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has affirmed its readiness to participate in local government elections scheduled to hold on Saturday across the 236 wards in the state.

This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, on Friday, and signed by Hon. Leke Shittu, that the party is set to participate in tomorrow’s LGAs elections, against a statement credited to a factional chairman of the party, Hon. Sikirulai Ogundele, who claimed that the party had pulled out of the elections.

The statement reads partly, “This is to inform the general public and good people of Ogun State that the party has and will never pull out of tomorrow’s local government elections. We have done all that we are supposed to do under the law and we will surely participate in tomorrow’s local government elections.

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“We hereby use this medium to urge the good people of Ogun State to disregard the statement credited to one Hon Sikirulai Ogundele who is not in any capacity capable to speak on behalf of our great party, PDP. It’s all gimmicks to create confusion where there is none but as the authentic leadership of Ogun PDP, the opposition party is participating in tomorrow’s local government elections.”

It will be recalled that Ogundele in a statement, on Thursday, had said that the decision to boycott in the election was “Sequel to the judgement of the Ogun State High Court, Isabo in suit no M/55/2021 between Sikirulai Ogundele VS OGSIEC, affirming the consent judgement of the Federal High Court, Abuja as delivered on 22nd June  2021, the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the able Chairmanship of Alh (Dr) Sikirulai Ogundele hereby withdraw from the Saturday, July, 24 local government elections.”

Shittu, however, urged the residents of the state to disregard the statement saying that “as the authentic leadership of PDP in Ogun State, we are going ahead with the local government elections as scheduled for tomorrow, July 24.”

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