The Peoples Democratic Party on Friday in Abuja presented the party’s flag to its Governorship candidates for Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States, ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The candidates are: Ladi Adebutu for Ogun, Seye Makinde for Oyo and Jimi Agbaje for Lagos State, who was represented by Mrs Oluwayemisi Busari.
The PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, while presenting the party flag, said that those who wanted to contest against the party and its candidates in the South-West states should be ready.
Secondus expressed optimism that the party would be victorious in the legal tussle on its governorship candidate in Ogun, saying that Adebutu was duly elected in the primary that produced him as the PDP candidate.
He said that the party’s primaries nationwide were monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission and names of the PDP candidates were submitted to the commission by the leadership of the party in accordance with electoral guidelines.
“You cannot come and bend the process. It is criminal for one person to print form and sell the form to himself, conduct congress by himself and submit names to INEC in his signatory,” he said.
The Ogun Governorship Candidate, Ladi Adebutu, while speaking on behalf of his colleagues, said he was certain that the PDP was “destined by God to deliver the nation from problems it was currently going through.”
Adebutu said that the party had shown with a determination that it was able to administer itself and lead the nation. He said that parties that were not capable of administering themselves could not administer a nation.
According to him “PDP has shown clearly that we have the capacity to administer ourselves well. We have done so and we have had processes throughout the nation that everybody should be proud of.
” Adebutu pledged that the candidates would do their best to provide good governance if elected in their various states.
“We will do our best to bring food and security to the masses of this country, We will also create enabling an environment that will make it easy for investors to stay here and help us prosper as a nation.
“Those are the things we believe in that will bring about good governance in all the states,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Senator Buruji Kashamu whose name was released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as Ogun State PDP candidate has said that the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus should be held responsible “for breach of public peace and safety should there be a breakdown of law and order in Ogun State” in the build up to the 2019 general elections.
He urged the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris and the Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi, to take cognizance of Secondus’ conduct which, according to him, is capable of causing tension and a breach of public peace.
Kashamu spoke in a statement he issued at the weekend following the presentation of the Ogun State PDP governorship flag to a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, in Abuja, on Friday.
He said the AGF, IGP and DG, SSS should refuse the temptation to allow “some misguided politicians” to take the laws into their hands and continue to act contemptuously of valid and subsisting court orders and judgments while hiding under the cloak of politics and politicking. There is no gainsaying the fact that such illegal acts could cause unmitigated disorder and a breach of public peace.
The lawmaker noted that he would soon furnish the offices of the AGF, IGP and SSS with all the relevant documents, detailing the criminal and contemptuous acts of these retrogressive elements. (NAN)
