Aspirants for the Saki West state constituency, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have called for the conduct of a primary to determine the party’s candidate for the constituency.
This is as the aspirants said they are not in agreement with the decision of stakeholders to select Honourable Femi Julius as the consensus candidate of the party.
Though they affirmed that leaders of the party met with them over resolving various issues, they said the issues remained unresolved and warned against “imposition” of Julius as the party’s candidate.
The aspirants who made their stance known in a statement are Barrister Hassan Ajibade, Mr Adekunle Koleosho, Mr Ayuba Bagbansoro, Mr Olabode Adeniyi, Mr Muizudeen Moshood Agbarikewu, Mr Seyi Olanrewaju, Mr Malik Aderogba and Mr Adekola Wahab Sikirullah.
The aspirants urged leaders and stakeholders in the constituency to allow a democratic process that will engender the emergence of a formidable and acceptable candidate for the party to stand in for the 2023 election.
The statement read in part: “Our attention has been drawn to the statement credited to one of our party leaders at the last general meeting of the party that we have agreed with the imposition of Honourable Femi Julius as our consensus candidate.
“We want to state categorically that we haven’t agreed with the so-called consensus arrangement.
“Truly, some leaders of the party met us to find a solution to the issues but we made our stand known by saying no to imposition.
“Let democratic process takes effect. We didn’t agree at the meeting that the imposition should stand.”
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