Kogi Guber: PDP Stakeholders Cry To Atiku Over Plot To Foist Melaye As Candidate

Some stakeholders in the Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have called on Atiku Abubakar to intervene over an alleged plot to foist Senator Dino Melaye as the party’s governorship candidate in the forthcoming election warning that it could well cost the party what they described as an easy victory.

The stakeholders who briefed newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday alleged a plot to alter the delegates’ list to the purpose of foisting Senator Melaye as the governorship candidate.

Senator Melaye immediately dismissed the charge asking that Atiku should be left out of the situation in Kogi.

Spokesperson of the coalition and former Chairman of Olamabiro Local Government Area, Hon. Faruk Adejoh, who was flanked by other stakeholders as he addressed the press said:

“Atiku Abubakar as our flag bearer is the leader of the party today. Atiku Abubakar should call Abdul Ningi or anyone to order today for the right thing to be done.

“This is what pushed Peter Obi out of PDP and this cost us so much in this election. If Peter Obi were in PDP, whether he was running mate or not, we would not have lost Eastern Nigeria, which was naturally our catchment area.

“They did a delegate election and this Secretariat changed the names of delegate list of Anambra state, and Peter Obi faced with disgrace in that election, because strange people were brought into the list in Anambra state, Peter Obi left the PDP and today we are at the mercy of the court and INEC.

“When you manipulate crudely in such a primitive manner, what do you intend to do with the tickets. Who will come and work for you when you didn’t win the primaries.”

“Our major opponent in the election is our party itself, the people in this National Secretariat and some leaders of the party who are notorious for peddling interest.

Dismissing the allegations against him as false, Senator Melaye said that stakeholders from Kogi East where most of the stakeholders come from were the ones wanting to alter the delegate list but “the Ward Congress Committee led by Ningi stood its grounds. “

Vanguard also quoted the former senator as saying that he had contested election to the House of Representatives and the Senate, but that “none of the aspirants except Senator Attai Aidoko has contested election.”

He also asked the coalition to leave Atiku Abubakar out of the situation in Kogi State.

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