Lagos Exco: Bode George Is Confused – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has faulted party elder, Chief Bode George over his criticisms on the process that led to the emergence of the new leadership of the Lagos State chapter of the party.

The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondinyan said that Chief Geroge a former deputy national chairman of the party had mixed up issues over his opposition to the process that led to the emergence of the new state chairman, Adedeji Doherty.

Doherty, remarkably, was at one time seen as an associate of Chief George who backed him against Jimi Agbaje in the PDP governorship primary last year.

George had cited judicial restraints as a primary reason in a statement he issued last weekend in which he accused the Secondus leadership of impunity.

But responding, the PDP in the statement said:

“Perusing the said publication, it is easily decipherable by all informed members and critical stakeholders that Chief George mixed up issues.

“We believe he did this inadvertently, and unfortunately came to an erroneous conclusion, probably because he does not have the correct facts on the matter at hand.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the National Working Committee, NWC, wishes to state that the process that produced the elected Adedeji Doherty-led Lagos State Executive Committee followed all due process as stipulated by the PDP Constitution, the Party Guidelines, the Electoral Act; and without any whimsical interference by the national leadership.

“All actions taken by our members in Lagos in filling vacancies left either by resignations, defections and or death of occupants of those offices followed due process.

“It was a collective decision of the majority of our members in the state taken in a determination to reposition our party for the challenges ahead; a development which ought to be commended by well-meaning leaders and members of our party.

“Nigerians, especially, Lagosians, are aware that PDP members and her supporters are in the majority in the state but have wondered over the years why the fortunes of the  party have not measured up to her numerical strength in successive general elections. 

“No responsible and meaningful national party leadership and committed followership would allow a promising state chapter of her party, like the PDP, to be eternally polarized, balkanized and stifled, through continuous decimation of her membership due to unwarranted wrangling.

“The PDP, therefore, calls on all critical stakeholders and teeming members in Lagos State to close ranks, put aside all personal and parochial interests and work with the newly elected leadership to strengthen our party and provide Lagosians that credible platform to rescue their state from the strangulating and exploitative regime of the All Progressives Congress APC.

“Indeed, Nigerians are looking up to our party for solutions and we must not fail them in getting the stage ready for the collective quest to retrieve the reins of governance from the anti-people, oppressive, incompetent, corrupt and vindictive APC at all levels.”

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