Ondo PDP crisis takes a fresh twist The crisis rocking the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has taken a fresh twist as some aggrieved aspirants under the party have vowed to resist imposition of candidates as 2015 election approaches. The aspirants, staged a protest in Abuja where they vowed to resist such impositions with the last drop of their blood and engineer protest votes against the party should the party’s hierarchy fails to address their grievances. Speaking through Hon Adekanmbi Femi, who is the chairman of Ondo PDP Aspirants Forum, the aspirants who are currently contesting for the state House of Assembly, House of Representatives and the Senate decried manipulation of political events in the state allegedly by Governor Olusegun Mimiko who recently defected to the PDP. The aspirants noted that they totally disagreed with, and totally rejected the reconciliation/harmonization meeting attended by Senate President, David Mark which they alleged single-handedly displaced over 63 aspirants who had paid millions for nomination forms overnight. They insisted that they were ready to face primaries which were recogniSed by the constitution of the party other than the imposition which they observed was alien to the said constitution. They cautioned that what was allegedly done in the state’s chapter of Labour Party from which the governor defected would be allowed in the PDP, as they maintained that the aspirants were ready to face primaries. According to them, it cannot be understood how the panel headed by Mike Williams could disqualify an OND-holder aspirant on the ground of not having a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate. As part of their grievances, the aspirants vowed that nobody could not remove the original Ondo PDP exco, and expressed the hope that justice would be got at last. They said, “Mimiko is not a member of PDP going by PDP constitution. The constitution has definite conditions attached to granting of waiver which he and his loyalists did not meet. “They are not yet our members, not to talk of contesting for anything. We can go to any length to prove this. “What they are doing is counter-productive. Let Mimiko go to his Labour Party and contest anything he wants to contest there. “We want to assure Jonathan that we will deliver Ondo for him without Mimiko but the way things are going, we are afraid Jonathan will not get a single vote in the state. “It is not as if we are dragging the party to court but the process. We have already protested to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Some PDP leaders have been compromised except Chief Jimoh Ibrahim,” Honourable Femi stated.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:20:41 +0000
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