A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State and former National Vice Chairman of the defunct All Peoples Party, Chief Alani Bankole, on Monday vowed that the PDP would defeat other political parties in the state even without the support of the state governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
Daniel, it will be recalled, had vowed not to support the PDP candidates in the state at the forthcoming polls as a result of the crisis that engulfed the party after its primaries.
But, Bankole, who is the father of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, vowed that the PDP would win the elections in the state even without the “so called state governor’s machinery.”
He said this in an interview with journalists in Abeokuta on Monday.
He said, “The chances of the party are hundred per cent; everybody who was part of the original PDP is now back into the fold. We will not make promises that we will not be able to fulfill.
“Our candidate (Chief Adetunji Olurin) is a gentleman and he is a man of his words and honour. I can assure you that whatever promises he makes now will be fulfilled. I have no doubt that people will see the difference in his administration; they will see that he is a man of honour, honesty, integrity and very transparent.’’
Bankole added, “In 2003, we had a sitting governor in a different political party, we brought out our campaign machinery and we over-ran the machinery of the government.”
We defeated them square and clear so much that they could not even go to court to contest it. It was a clear and clean victory under a governor like Olusegun Osoba, a fine gentleman of highest esteem.”
By Francis Falola, Abeokuta Courtesy Of: Punch
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