The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade, has described Yorubas in the
South West as very intelligent individuals who would not vote based on ethnic
sentiments in 2023.
Akinlade said the people of the South West would rather
reject the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that has “put them under
extreme hunger and poverty.”
He made this statement at an extended meeting of the PDP in
Yewa South Local Government, held at the Engr. Tetede Hall, Ilaro, Ogun State.
The 2019 governorship candidate said some individuals are
already ‘dreaming’ that the South West votes are already in the kitty for the
APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu; saying, however, that this is not
true.
According to Akinlade, the PDP is already in control of two
out of the six states in the South West, expressing confidence that Ogun would
join the list in 2023.
“Atiku Abubakar will win in 2023. I am saying this based on
available data. In 2019 when the APC had President Muhammadu Buhari as a
returning candidate and with governors in all the six States of the South West,
PDP won in two States. In the remaining four states, the margin of win was very
slim. This was a time when there was no BVAS and other technologies introduced
by INEC. That time, winners were decided at the collation centres. You all know
what happened in 2019. That is no more possible.
“The Osun election has shown us that rigging is no more
possible. Your votes will count now. You just turn out en masse to vote for the
PDP all through.
“Today in the South West, PDP has two states, Oyo and Osun
and I know Ogun will join the list.
“When some people were talking to us in Abuja, we told them
we are going to deliver the six states of the South West for Atiku. There are
insinuations that people might consider ethnicity, but I told them that we
Yorubas are very wise and we hardly forget things. Someone who treated us with
injustice in 2019 cannot come now to preach ethnic sentiment. Did they forget
then that we are brothers?
“We are going to pay them back in their own coin. We will
vote for the PDP and Atiku will win,” Akinlade posited.
He maintained further that northerners would vote for Atiku,
especially now that President Buhari is not on the ballot.
The PDP, according to Akinlade, is “a party of hope, freedom
and self determination; a party that allows and encourages you to attain your
dreams unhindered.”
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