The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has woken up f
rom its slumber, determined to unseat the Labor Party (LP) in Ondo State.
Ayodele
Fayose, the governor-elect of Ekiti State, made the assertion at a
victory rally organized for him in Akure, the Ondo State capital, by the
state chapter of the PDP.
Mr. Fayose stated
that both the Labor Party and the All Progressive Congress (APC) should
brace to receive red cards come the 2016 governorship election in Ondo.
He disclosed that the PDP in Ondo State, which had suffered from lack of internal democracy, was now formidable and ready to win all elections in the state.
The
Ekiti State governor elect said the era of imposition of candidates by
the PDP was now in the past, adding that his party was fully prepared
for the 2015 general elections.
“When
popular candidates emerge through primary elections, the party [will
be] sure of victory at the general polls,” Mr. Fayose said.
He
also said he was optimistic that the PDP would emerge victorious in the
coming August 9, 2014 governorship election in Osun State. He warned
the APC to desist from propaganda on the pages of national newspapers.
Mr.
Fayose said that part of the strategy for wresting power from the
incumbent Labor Party government in Ondo State was to continually hold
rallies in the various local governments.
"We
will be holding rallies every time and I am ready to work for Ondo State
to unseat the present Labor Party government. We will strengthen the
party,” he said.
He added: "Though I am not in a leadership
tussle with anyone in the southwest, my mission is to claim the region
back to the PDP and I will make myself available in all rallies of the
party."
Speaking at the event, Olusola Oke, the
PDP’s governorship candidate in the last general election in Ondo
State, said the party was ready to unseat the Labor Party government.
Mr. Oke said the era of “prostitution politics” embarked upon by
Governor Olusegun Mimiko would not be tolerated anymore, adding that the
ship of the LP was already sinking.
"Light has come back to Ondo State, and PDP is ready to reclaim its mandate from this political prostitution.
"The
era where someone will be claiming [to be a] Peoples Democratic Party
member in Abuja and be destroying the party in Ondo is over,” he said.
Olaiya
Oni, a former state chairman of the Labor Party who has now joined the
PDP, urged party supporters to join hands in condemning Mr. Mimiko’s
tyrannical government.
Mr. Oni described the
Labor Party as a failure, adding that many of the party’s policies were
unfavorable to the common man. He accused the Mimiko administration of
overtaxing the people of the state.
Speaking
also, the PDP state chairman, Ebenezer Alabi, said the days of the Labor
Party government in Ondo were numbered. Mr. Alabi added that the wind
of change would soon blow across the southwest states of the country,
adding that the PDP was ready to regain its lost glory from the
opposition parties.
"We are full of hope and
expectations that the Fayose antidote that neutralized the APC poison in
Ekiti will guarantee the PDP success in Osun State come August 9, 2014,
victory in Ogun, Oyo and Lagos on the 28th of February 2015, as well as
delivered in Ondo in 2016,” he said.
The rally
was attended by many prominent PDP figures, including the chairman of
the southwest PDP mobilization committee, Buruji Kashamu.
Hundreds of Labor Party members in the state declared their defection to the PDP fold. --
The
national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday
said the display of power of impunity against governments and governors
of states controlled by their members is a clear indication that the
federal government on the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan could
breed dire consequences.
After
weeks of speculation, former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu
Sheriff, on Monday in Maiduguri, the state capital, confirmed that he
was defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP.
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