2023: No Division In Ogun PDP , Showunmi Vows To Respect Court Verdict

Factional governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ogun State, Otunba Segun Showunmi, has said there is no division in the party and expressed belief that all stakeholders and members of the party will accept the verdict of the court on its authentic flagbearer ahead of the poll.

He said this at a pre-campaign briefing with select news and politics editors in Lagos on Tuesday.

Showunmi expressed optimism and confidence that he would be on the ballot in the Governorship election in Ogun State, especially as a Court of Appeal in Abuja had given a consequential order dismissing the ruling of a lower court over jurisdiction to hear the suit between him, the PDP and others.

The governorship candidate said this just as he noted that his campaign ahead of the governorship race would fully commence on September 28, this year, adding that his style would be issues-based.

This, he said was because he would be running a “new deal” that would transform Ogun State.

While reiterating his acceptance of party supremacy both at the national and state levels, the governorship hopeful maintained that the primary election conducted by the Ladi Adebutu camp remained a charade and would not stand.

Insisting that the PDP in Ogun State was not factionalised, the spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign in 2019, said, “A political party is the creation of the law and what makes a political party have the right to even claim it is a political party is its constitution and the grand law which is the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. No legally created organ can be given the wherewithal to act as if it doesn’t know that it is a creation of the law.

“So, as it concerns supposed recognition here and there, don’t worry, they will recognize everything that needs to be recognized. Like you are well aware that the Court of Appeal has given us the first favourable judgment, I trust that we will be fine.

“I actually don’t think we are divided, to be fair. We both accept the supremacy of our national organs. My position is that whatever it is they called their primary is a charade, it can’t hold and it can’t stand. The primary election that produced me as candidate followed all the extant laws of the country and in due season, they will definitely come to the point they have to come to,” Showunmi said of his mandate as Ogun State PDP candidate.

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