‘We’ll Surprise ACN In LG Polls’

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun state, southwest Nigeria, is perfecting strategies to ensure that the party wins some local governments in the forthcoming local government elections slated for next year in the state.

Speaking with our correspondent recently in Ota, the new Senatorial Chairman of the party in Ogun West Senatorial District, Asiwaju (Hon.) Leye Abiodun Odunjo boasted that the party had learnt its lessons and will spring surprises in the local government election.

Odunjo who was a two time lawmaker that represented Sango-Ota State Constituency in the fifth and sixth legislatures said, “right now, we are in the stage of reconciliation and harmonisation in the state. Everybody knows that Ogun West is the strong hold of the party in the state and if not for our internal crises that engulfed the party in the last general elections, things would have not be like this. I believe that by now, we have learnt our lessons and with the situation of things now in the state, I can tell you boldly that we are going to win some local government within the Senatorial District.”

Odunjo who was the Chairman of the G-15 lawmakers that fought the former governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, promised that, he will ensure that all loopholes are mended and the aggrieved members who have defected to other parties, especially, PPN will be brought back to the party.

“As I told you, we are working assiduously to settle our home and I

can tell you today, the move is successful. Most of our members who have defected to other parties, especially those that went to PPN, we have open discussion with them and over 85% of them have returned to the party. That’s to show you how prepared we are for the local government election in the state”, Odunjo disclosed.

Commenting on the ongoing trial by the EFCC of the former Milad,

Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the former lawmaker stated that, he would prefer to be silent for now as the matter is in a court of law, but

maintained that, the whole world would see a lot of revelation and the mess the former governor has put the state into.

“When we were talking then, some people were saying we were been sponsored by some particular people, is EFCC now been sponsored by the same set of people? It is high time we opened our eyes and stopped sycophancy. It is only God that can kill and at the same time bring back to life. I want the anti-graft agency to do their

investigations very well and at the end of the day, people of Ogun state will know whether the Egbetokun-led House of Assembly then meant well for the state or not,” he posited.

On the probing of lands acquisition and revocation during the era of

the former governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the former lawmaker said that he has every trust in the Chairman of the Committee, Hon.(Pastor) Remmy Hazzan whom he described as a man of God and trustworthy person.

The Ogun West Senatorial Chairman frowned at those that are crying wolf on the personalities of the Committee members, saying, “let me correct an insinuation making round that Hon. Hazzan will be partial in the discharge of the work. I want to let you know that he was very knowledgeable in that area, he was the Chairman of the House Committee on Lands before in the House before he became the Deputy Speaker and everybody can attest to his track record, with Hon. Remmy Hazzan there, the truth will prevail. And as he has rightly said that they are not out to witch-hunt anybody, but to correct some anomalies that were perpetrated during the last regime, let’s give them support and await the outcome of their findings.”

He disclosed that preparations are in top gear for the local government election as leaders have been meeting to ensure that no stone is left unturned during the elections and to see that credible and sell-able candidates are presented by the party for the elections.

—Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta