Atiku’s spokesman Sowunmi declares intention for Ogun governorship

By Adejoke Adeleye

The spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organization during the 2019 presidential election, Segun Sowunmi has declared his intention to vie for the Ogun governorship seat next year.

Sowunmi declared his ambition to contest the 2023 governorship election in the State at Panseke area of Abeokuta South of the state.

In his speech, he blamed the inability of the PDP to win the governorship seat in the past elections on the infighting in the party and urged all members of the party to jettison their personal interests and work for the progress of the party.

He said, “All our (PDP) efforts have not produced any result for some time and the main reason is the unnecessary infighting.

“All you have said concerning Segun Sowunmi to come and run for Governor, I have heard and I heard clearly. I will definitely, most definitely, and extremely definitely run for the Governorship of Ogun State in 2023.

“I have spent the last 20 years or more in this political dispensation serving them, speaking for them, improving them, running for them and I have now realised that I’m the leader I have been searching for and I tell you again with every sense of responsibility that you have never seen governance at the level I intend to do it.

“The business of governance of cutting tape because of road is not what we are talking about here. Obafemi Awolowo’s vision for Yoruba nation has now come to be improved, rewritten, and expanded.”

However, the party chieftains and members across all the wards were unanimous in their call for the Sowunmi to contest, saying it was time to wrestle power in a united front from the ruling All Progressives Congress.