Former Nigeria’s envoy to Canada,
Amb Dare Bejide, has said the defection of former Vice President, Atiku
Abubakar to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) was a sign that President
Muhammadu Buhari has disappointed Nigerians.
Bejide, a PDP governorship
aspirant in Ekiti State, hinted that it was dangerous for the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to have lost a politician of Atiku’s clout , saying, “his coming
to our party will help us to regain power at the centre in 2019”.
On the contest for the PDP’s
National Chairmanship seat, Bejide predicted doom for the party if the
Southwest is excluded from ascending the throne as being allegedly
stage-managed by some party top notches.
Former governor Gbenga Daniel,
Chief Bode George, Prof Tunde Adeniran, and Mr. Jimi Agbaje are the aspirants
jostling for the party’s plum seat.
Bejide spoke in Ikere Ekiti on
Wednesday during a meeting with some party members in the local government
ahead of the 2018 governorship
election.
The former envoy , who promised
that he will clinch the party’s ticket in spite of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s
adoption of his deputy, Prof Kola Olusola, as preferred candidate, added that
Atiku’s defection will impact on the PDP positively.
“For a politician of Atiku’s
standing to have defected shows President Buhari’s poor performances in
government. It confirms the APC is not the best for Nigeria and his coming is a
good development for our party”, he said.
Bejide said the outcome of the
December 10 National Convention of the PDP will determine how the 2019 will
look like for the party .
“It is only logical to make
someone from the Southwest the National Chairman. Since the formation of the
PDP in 1998, nobody from that zone has been elected into that position and this
is the right time and opportunity to correct that neglect.
“ Vice Presidential Prof Yemi
Osibajo is from the Southwest, the APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is
from the zone and the party controls five states out of six, so it will be
suicidal for the PDP to neglect the region in its political calculations.
“Let me say this clearly, if the
party takes the position to the South South, it means they are saying they
don’t need the votes of that region and the implications will be dire for the PDP”,
he warned.
He said the alleged illegal
adoption of Prof Olusola as the party’s sole candidate for the 2018
governorship election further confirmed that the founding fathers of the party
are being sidelined and
undermined.
“We formed the PDP in Ekiti in
1998 when the party’s members were being seen as bastards by the
South-westerners. But today , we have no say again but we won’t tolerate such
and that is why I am gunning for the governorship .
“We want to serve our people. We
want to return the party to them. We want to serve the women, youths and other
populace in Ekiti in the most deserving way and that is why I am want your
support”, Bejide pleaded.
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Pls keep quiet, everyone is trying to be relevant by spewing thrash. Atiku only represents the thieving class and does not represent the average hard working Nigerians. Atiku is nothing but a political harlot, I never trust people that are inconsistent. Atiku is one of them.
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