- Vows to take over party, sack all saboteurs
By Lanre Adesanya
SUNRISE – A Peoples Democratic Party Chieftain, Mr. Segun Adewale (Aeroland), has linked his decision to take over the PDP as a call to redirect the party to the path through which it can secure the victory it deserves at polls since the inception of this democratic dispensation, but deliberately traded upon by dubious stakeholders.
Adewale opined that Chief Bode George is the father of failures in the party, who connives with the national leader of APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to produce candidates whose business in partisan politics is not to win, but to trade off to the detriment of the party.
According to Adewale, that is one of the reasons why I am trying to let the world know that there is no need for anybody to be in PDP in Lagos, until Chief Bode George is pushed aside or retired forcefully, if that is not done we are just wasting our time.
“That is why I did not involve myself in the last
polls because if I had gotten involved, knowing PDP cannot win and that Chief
Bode George is working for the APC directly, then it would amount to a waste of
everything.
“I knew even Agbaje himself is not even ready for the fact that Chief Bode
George is not ready to support Agbaje, he can use that as an excuse to fail.
“That is what I saw in advance and I didn’t get involved, if I had got
myself involved and there is fracas in Lagos state, people would be saying that
it is Segun Adewale that caused the defeat of 2019.
He cited an instance to corroborate his stance on why Bode George had to be shown the door in PDP.
“A scenario where when we are trying to reconcile last two weeks, Dominic a stooge of Bode George himself confirm and asserted that they didn’t work for Agbaje because he did not give them money, that they worked for BOG, he said that so how can I be part of that PDP? It is anti party and Chief Bode George keep on doing it.
” You can recall that when I was the chairman of the
party and we were about getting ready for the local government election when
Chief Bode George went on Channels TV and announced that PDP in Lagos would be
using Labour platform and even wrote a letter through Salvador to the LASIEC
that PDP is not contesting.
“We had to go and demonstrate at LASIEC before our name was taken and we
have about six or seven councillors and they with all the monies given to them
from Abuja they could not deliver one councillor,nobody give me money but I use
my little resources,organized the election and we had seven councillors that
were duly declared.
Adewale asserts that Bode George and his cohort fleece the party every four years and also trade with its political fortune with the rival party APC.
“That is why many of us have problems with the party, because we are trying to do the right things the people that are doing the wrong things are the ones progressing.
“If you are doing the right things people just hate you with passion, because Tinubu the leader of APC has planted people in PDP not to ever produce the right candidates that can win governorship, so that is what we are trying to do, let us tidy up ourselves.
“Get assembly members, enough reps and senates, even
if we cannot get senate let them give us enough assembly members.
“How can it be getting worse, now we had none in the assembly, whereas
when I contested we had eight in the assembly and six in the reps when I didn’t
contest we manage to have two reps, assembly none, it is deliberate. They are
all intertwined. Adewale retorted.