“Some People Took Money For Mobilization But Used The Money To Build Houses And Buy Cars” PDP Candidate, Jimi Agbaje On The Loss Of Lagos Guber Election

According to a report available to societynowng.com

Former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and one-time Chairman of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Chief Bode George has slammed party topshot and former Minister, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro for causing the party’s loss at the last gubernatorial election.

Speaking at the Lagos PDP Assembly meeting held inside the party Secretariat, Chief George who did not mention Obanikoro by name stated that the performance of the party in the state was the best both in the gubernatorial and Presidential elections in the whole South West.

According to him: “We were defeated by the agent provocateurs within our ranks.

We were defeated by political renegades who merely invested in their own greedy and selfish interests. Our victory was scuttled by evil characters, who preferred the narrow position of the ministerial office than the collective esteem and honour of winning Lagos State gubernatorial election.

“The greatest challenge of our party has always been indiscipline. People don’t obey the rules of the game. People invent their own rules. This cannot continue.

Nobody is above the constitution of the party. We must either conform with the strict adherence to the normative pattern of party rules or we ship out.

There will be no exemptions. The party is supreme.”

Also speaking, Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State at the 2015 general elections, Mr. Jimi Agbaje said that he was left in debt after his defeat by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the April 11 poll.

Agbaje said he had many reasons to be angry over the outcome of the election, stating, however, that both the leaders and members of the party must respect the supremacy of the party in order to move forward. He said: “I am angry for many reasons.

The first one is that we won an election and they denied us victory. I am angry that some people took money for mobilization but they refused to spread it. Rather they used the money to build houses and buy cars.

“I finished election, I owed money. I finished election, na igbese (debt) I carried for head and you think say I no go vex. All of us dey vex but we have to move forward. “The party is supreme and we must tell those that are angry that they have no right to be angry with the party more than me.

That we are angry does not mean we will bring down the PDP house. We must correct all that happened in the past.”

Addressing the gathering on the need to put the events of the last election behind them and forge ahead for new challenges, former National Deputy Chairman of the party, Chief Bode George, stated that the performance of the party in the state was the best both in the gubernatorial and Presidential elections in the whole South West. He said: “We were defeated by the agent provocateurs within our ranks.

We were defeated by political renegades who merely invested in their own greedy and selfish interests. Our victory was scuttled by evil characters, who preferred the narrow position of the ministerial office than the collective esteem and honour of winning Lagos State gubernatorial election.

“The greatest challenge of our party has always been indiscipline. People don’t obey the rules of the game. People invent their own rules. This cannot continue.

Nobody is above the constitution of the party. We must either conform with the strict adherence to the normative pattern of party rules or we ship out.

There will be no exemptions. The party is supreme.” The gathering had in attendance leaders of the party in the state including a former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe and former Minister of Cooperation and Integration in Africa, Chief Abimbola Ogunkelu.

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