PDP Youth Group Cautions Obanikoro

The Concerned Lagos PDP Youth Group addressed the press today on the facts of the issues that surrounded the conduct of the Governorship primary of the People's Democratic Party PDP in Lagos last Monday and the aftermath of it, particularly as it has to do with Senator Musiliu Obanikoro who participated in the elections.

Speaking through its Coordinator, Mr. Olufemi Lawson, the group described Obanikoro as one who does not deserve the kind of grace and privilege he has enjoyed since joining the PDP.

"We have overtime raised several issues concerning the conduct of Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro months before the eventual conduct of the election. Our organisation, the Lagos PDP Youth Study Group had even days before the election advised the former Junior Minister of Defense to concentrate on winning the minds of delegates to the primary rather than engaging in needless battle against the elders of the PDP in the State, many of whom were instrumental to his and rising to whatever position he has assumed since joining the PDP after he left the old Alliance for Democracy AD/AC.

"Today, we make bold to say that Musiliu Obanikoro can be best described as an individual who though does not deserve the kind of grace and privilege he has enjoyed since he was brought into the PDP by Chief Olabode George, yet he looks for trouble where there is none." Mr. Olufemi said.

He also gave an account of what went down at the recently staged PDP primaries which saw Jimi Agbaje clinching the party's ticket to contest for the Gubernatorial elections come 2015.

"For the purpose of records, we wish to state that in the course of the primaries, the six Governorship aspirants contesting the elections agreed that there was a clerical omission in the originally announced delegate number of 806, as it had left out some ad hoc and statutory delegates from a few local governments, and that they should be allowed to vote. Earlier placed as 806 delegates, the total figure for voting delegates finally came to 864 after votes were cast.

"Musiliu Obanikoro just like others together with their agents, were party to this agreement. There and then, it was agreed that the omitted delegates be added to the total tally. Even in simple arithmetic, if a deduction of the 58 delegates that Obanikoro is building his protest upon is made, Mr. Jimi Agbaje still remains the clear winner of the recently staged primary of the PDP in Lagos State.

"We need to remind Mr. Obanikoro that the outcome of the primaries may be beyond his comprehension because party faithful were genuinely interested in considering factors greater than Obanikoro's sly politics in making their choice."

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