Former Deputy National
Chairman (South) of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George
has appealed to aggrieved aspirants who lost out in Monday’s governorship
primaries to work for the success of the party in next year’s election.
At the governorship
primaries which was held at Yard 158, Plot 34 Oregun Road, Lagos, southwest
Nigeria, Jimi Agbaje polled 432 votes to defeat Obanikoro who scored 343 votes,
while Adedeji Doherty and Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi polled 21 votes each.
Chief George, however, said
that there are measures put in place to unite aggrieved aspirants.
Also Senator Musiliu
Obanikoro has called for the cancellation of the Lagos State governorship
primaries, calling it a sham and that Bode George supervised this electoral
malpractice.
Addressing a press
conference after the party’s controversial governorship primaries, Chief George
denied allegations leveled against him that he manipulated the process in
favour of Mr Jimi Agbaje.
His words: “The people have
spoken loud and clear. There is no ambiguity in their vision, there is no
hesitation in their collective truth. They have chosen Olujimi Agbaje as their
choice in the PDP governorship primary in Lagos State.
“This victory which is a
passage of next year’s general elections is a testimony of the choice that the
good people of Lagos State are clamouring for. Lagosians need a breath of fresh
air. Lagosians have rejected the past with its twin venom of thuggery and
hooliganism, with its virulent emblem of intolerance and calumny.
“The procedure was not
designed by me. It was done transparently, you were all there. Our hands of
friendship is extended to all those who are aggrieved. Lagos is the most
strategic state in the country and we must not joke with it. All those who lost
the elections are our boys. We will as one big family go and fight the enemy.
Let us deliver Lagos and tell the people that there is a better alternative for
them.”
Nothing credible comes from olabode.
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