Ahead of theMay 21 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Deputy National Chairman of the party and other stakeholders from the South-West said, yesterday, that failure to give the position of the national chairman of the party to the zone was a clear indication that the opposition party hated the people of Yoruba race.
Rising from a meeting, weekend, in Lagos, the South West PDP stakeholders said without any fear of equivocation, the people from the zone demanded and desired the post of the national chairman at the next convention of the party.
A statement signed, yesterday, in Abuja by the former Special Assistant, Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said only the South West had not produced the position of PDP national chairman since the inception of the party.
Okupe said: “There is an embarrassing falsehood being propagated by political charlatans from the South-West and some influential collaborators in the top echelon of the PDP. “On April 21, 2016, the cream of the authentic Yoruba leadership in the South-West gathered in Ikoyi, under the chairmanship of Chief Olabode George, a retired Air Commodore, former governor, former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP and a grandson of the revered legendary and world acclaimed, distinguished Yoruba icon and politician, Sir Herbert Macaulay.
“At that meeting, the true sons and daughters of Yoruba land in an unprecedented unity, condemned the erstwhile claim by the Yoruba traitors, who went and lied to the PDP chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, that the Yoruba do not want the chairmanship of the PDP..
“I want to state categorically here, without any fear of equivocation, that we the Yorubas from the South-West, desire and demand the post of the national chairman at the next convention of the party.
“Failure of a Yoruba man to emerge as the national chairman can only mean two things. That there is a pervasive and concealed hatred for the South-West in the PDP or that the PDP has very little or no regard for Yoruba interest as was evinced by the obvious cheating of the South-West from the position of the Speaker in 2011, which was never rectified nor compensated for the whole of four years.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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