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Fayose kicks as PDP opts for consensus candidate
Ekiti 2014: Fayose kicks as PDP opts for consensus candidate
Ahead the Ekiti State governorship election holding on June 21, leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have decided to select a consensus candidate, DailyPost has learnt.
The PDP Presidential Consensus Committee, led by Chief Olabode George, met with the governorship aspirants in Abuja at the weekend.
Chieftains at the meeting include PDP National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo; Dr. Jide Adeniji; Dr. Doyin Okupe; Prof. Tunde Adeniran; Chief Abiodun Olujimi; Chief C.K. Awoyelu, Mr. Makanjuola Ogundipe, among others.
Sources said the aspirants were told that the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, “would announce the party’s consensus choice among the 14 aspirants within 48 hours.”
President Goodluck Jonathan is reportedly insisting on a consensus candidate as he believes that a primary would create crisis that may mar the changes of the party at the poll.
DailyPost gathered that apirants at the meeting agreed with the arrangement and signed an undertaking to support whoever emerges as the party’s flagbearer.
But in his reaction, former Governor, Ayo Fayose, declared that he would not be part of any consensus arrangement.
Fayose who spoke yesterday through his spokesman, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti, said consensus is a form of imposition.
“Anybody who believes in democracy and in the election must believe in primary. I do not want to be a consensus candidate. Everybody must be given the right to contest as a member of the party,” he said.
“I have obtained my form and submitted it to the national secretariat. I was screened and the last leg of the process is the primary. If an aspirant has paid N11 million for the nomination form, he should have the courage to face the electorate that will elect him as a candidate at the primary.
“I reject consensus. I am ready to face other aspirants. After all, there will be no consensus at the general election. I believe in party supremacy based on equity and fair play.”
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Aregbesola set to return with no opposition
Crisis is brewing in the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the selection of its governorship flag bearer, it was learnt yesterday. The primaries is scheduled for Osogbo, the state capital on March 26. The governorship poll willhold on August 9.
Sources said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s advice to the troubled chapter to pick a consensus candidate among the aspirants have been jettisoned, following their refusal to step down for one another and mounting agitations for primaries by their supporters.
The aspirants are former Governor Isiaka Adeleke, who until 2011, was a senator, former House of Representatives member Hon. Wole Oke, Senator Olasunkanmi Akinlabi, and the former deputy governor, Senator Omisore. But, the contest has been narrowed down to Adeleke and Omisore, who have embarked on aggressive internal campaign in support of their aspiration.
Members told our correspondent that, following the President’s advice, a section of the party started to root for Omisore’s candidature, based on the criteria that he has money to oil the party’s campaign machinery and he hails from Ife/Ijesa District, the birth place of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
However, the agitation for the adoption of Omisore as a consensus candidate has created division in the party as influential party elders pointed out that the ruling party may embark on media campaign against his candidature as a prime suspect in the Bola Ige murder trial.
At the recent meeting of the select stakeholders in Osogbo, it was resolved that Omisore, although a dedicated party leader and financier, may not be marketable at the poll, owing to what they described as “the problem of perception”. But, pro-Omisore supporters perceive Adeleke as a candidate who lacks resources to fund a state-wide campaign.
A source said: “We are in the electioneering period. In our party, it is believed that, if Omisore emerges as the governorship candidate, his detractors will always link his political career to the tragedy of Ige’s murder, although he has been cleared by the court and absolved of the charges. Ige’s son, Muyiwa, has been protesting that he is the prime suspect. You know that the people of Osun and Southwest are still bitter over the gruesome murder of the deputy Afenifere leader.
He added: “The party came to this dilemma. If Omisore will not be endorsed, who is capable of challenging Aregbesola? That was how some leaders started rooting for Adeleke, who initially, had indicated an interest to return to the Senate in 2015. But, it is not the end of the matter. Omisore is still protesting and he believes that he will get the ticket at the primaries”.
Another source said that “there is no iota of truth in the rumour that the Osun PDP has resolved to adopt Senator Isiaka Adeleke as the consensus candidate”. He said that the former governor joined the race late and did not purchase the nomination form before it was closed.
The source also denied that President Jonathan had a candidate in mind when he suggested the consensus formula to the chapter at the meeting he held with its leaders in Abuja.
He added: “There was election in Anambra. Did the President put down anybody? Is the President putting down anybody in Ekiti? The fact is that the equation on ground favours Osun West, where Adeleke and Olasunkanmi Akinlabi comes from. It has been suggested that a Muslim candidate will rub shoulders with Aregbesola and the two of them are Muslims. Adeleke joined the race because the equation favours him.
‘But, the President has told our leaders that he has no candidate in mind. He only urged them to present a person as a consensus candidate”.
According to the source, aspirants had up to December 31 to indicate their interest in the ticket by paying N5m for the nomination form, pointing out that Adeleke did not observe the guideline.
He added: “On January 8, after the deadline, only three candidates paid the money; Akinlabi, Omisore and Oluwole Oke. Adeleke did not pay the amount. So, where is he starting from? He just flying a carte.
The party source said that primaries will hold, stressing that it is in the interest of the party. He said: “One of the aspirants is desperate. he wants to subvert and manipulate the process. That was why the secretary of the party, Major Raphael Towobola, who hails from Ile-Ife, was suspended for one month so that he will not be around during the primaries holding on March 26”.
Appointment of suspected murderer as a minister insult on yoruba
‘Appointment of suspected murderer as minister insult on Yoruba’
By Our Reporter. On Mar 12th, 2014 at 01:36Filed under: News
A body, the Coalition of Oodua Self-Determination Groups (COSEG), has described the appointment of Mr. Jelili Adeshiyan by President Goodluck Jonathan as the Police Affairs Minister, as an insult on the Yoruba.
“It is also an attempt to shield him and his cohorts from prosecution over the death of the former Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige,” the group added.
In a statement by its Chairman and Secretary, Ifedayo Ogunlana and Rasak Olokoba, at the end of its monthly meeting where the state of the nation was discussed, the body described the appointment as an attempt to pervert the course of justice.
According to the group, the appointment of Adeshiyan is not only an insult on the people of Yoruba land, but also a disservice to the memory of Chief Bola Ige. A man, who is an aide of Senator Iyiola Omisore, known for violence and brigandage, cannot be trusted in such a position. He is still under investigation for the murder of Ige, yet he is a minister in charge of a government agency. This calls to question the anti-corruption crusade of the Jonathan administration.”
It said: “We have noticed the hatred President Jonathan has for our people. This is why a suspected murderer could be appointed as a Police Affairs Minister.”
COSEG decried the Senate for the hasty manner it confirmed the nomination of the suspected murderer, despite opposition from the three senators from Osun State.
“We are confused on how a man standing trial for murder could have scaled the screening of the security as well as that of the Senate.
“It is also worrisome how our security system works if a suspected murderer, who has a case in court, could scale through security screening. This is why government has been unable to stop Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast,” the group said.
It went on: “The appointment of Adeshiyan is not only mischievous, but also reckless, immoral, anti-people and a dangerous trend in the political development and appointments because he who asks for equity must come with clean hands.
The appointment of Adeshiyan is flawed. The Jonathan administration cannot continue to scorn the late Ige, an ex-Justice Minister.”
COSEG said it would resist attempt by the President to allegedly use the minister to rig the forthcoming governorship election in Osun State, adding that it would protect the sanctity of the electoral process.
Sunday, 9 March 2014
2015 APC vs PDP in verbal war.
APC to PDP: stop stereotyping people on religious basis
By Gbade Ogunwale. On Mar 10th, 2014 at 00:56Filed under: News
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) reference to its Road Map as a product of ‘Janjaweed Ideology’ is a thinly-veiled religious blackmail, which is in furtherance of its (PDP’s) ongoing campaign to pigeon-hole the APC as an Islamic party.
APC’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement in Lagos yesterday.
The party said: “On a more dangerous level, it shows that the PDP will not relent from engaging in Islamophobia by using the Boko Haram crisis in a part of the country to stereotype Muslims and paint them as terrorists, even when it is obvious that majority of Muslims do not support the heinous crimes being perpetrated by the sect.
‘’The only reason that the PDP used the word ‘Janjaweed’ is because the militia that goes by that name comprises mostly, if not exclusively, of people of Arab/Muslim stock in Sudan.
‘’This has further confirmed our fears that there is a clear attempt by the PDP, led by President Goodluck Jonathan, to divide Nigerians along religious lines as never before in the history of our country and to use religious as a political tool – a very dangerous move that can only result in religious warfare, from which no country that engages in it has ever survived intact.
‘’Or how else can one explain the continuous attempt by the PDP, despite warnings from right thinking people and groups, to cast people of a certain faith, who constitute half of our country’s population, as either terrorists or terror sympathisers/sponsors, or to label the APC as an Islamic party just to hang it? Couldn’t the PDP have criticised our Road Map without resorting to its well-worn, dangerous game of religious blackmail?’’
The party said it was reacting because of the dictum that a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.
‘’Perhaps the PDP has mistaken our decision to take the high road and avoid religious and ethnic politics as a sign that it (PDP) is succeeding in its religious blackmail. Therefore, we have decided to let Nigerians know that the sooner they repudiate this dangerous tactics by the PDP, the safer for our country.
‘’We are a party for all Nigerians, and we believe in issues-based politics, not one based on religious or ethnic sentiments. We believe God is neither Christian nor Muslim, and that he is the God of all, irrespective of their religion. We believe God will judge politicians not according to their religion but according to how much they have fulfilled the mandate to ensure the welfare and security of their people, and by how much they have lessened the people’s burdens rather add to them.”
The party challenged the PDP to unveil its own Road Map for Nigerians to see and compare, rather than attempt to drown the opposition’s message in a sea of religious blackmail.
‘’We will not allow our Road Map to be buried on the altar of diversionary rhetoric by the do-nothing PDP. Therefore, in the days and weeks ahead, we will be highlighting the key areas of the document for all Nigerians to see.
‘’For now, let us say that our Road Map is for job creation, for which we have unveiled a broad and comprehensive agenda to create 20,000 jobs in each state for those with the minimum qualifications and who participate in technology and vocational training, and to encourage every state government to create jobs by matching every job created at the state government level with two jobs by the federal government.
‘’We will fight corruption, for which the PDP-led FG has become infamous, whenever and wherever it occurs. An APC government will show zero tolerance for government or private sector corruption by placing the burden of proof on persons with inexplicable wealth to prove their innocence; and guaranteeing the independence of anti-corruption and financial crimes.
‘’We will provide free, relevant and quality education that is essential to prepare our youth for the jobs of tomorrow and to ensure Nigeria’s future success. We will revive agriculture as an engine for economic growth and new jobs and increase the supply of quality housing through a policy of social housing for the poor and affordable housing for the working class.
‘’We will improve Health Care; provide Social Welfare; build and improve our roads, power and basic infrastructure to create new jobs and unleash business growth and strengthen peace and security by stopping the kind of horrendous acts of terrorism, especially in the Northeast, which have robbed us of Nigerian lives of every age and withered confidence in our nation’s security.’’
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