Former Sepaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole has described
Bankole
Gboyega Isiaka as a fake People’s Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate for the 2015 general elections.
Bankole stated this yesterday through a statement issued by the Dimeji Bankole Movement, signed by Kayode Akintunde in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
He was reacting to the protest by the people from Ogun State against alleged plan by the national leaders of the party to upturn his victory as the party’s governorship candidate during the primary held recently.
Ogun West people led by Chief Ayo Otegbola had staged a protest, warning the party against replacing their kinsman with Bankole, who they alleged did not obtain any form to contest the February gubernatorial poll.
But Dimeji Bankole Movement stated “unequivocally that Mr. Gboyega Isiaka, who is being paraded by a group of disenchanted members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State as the governorship candidate of the party in the 2015 election was a fake product produced by an unauthorized primary.
“The NWC had issued a directive postponing the conduct of the governorship primary in Ogun State and pronounced that any primary in the state was null and void and of no effect.
“It was based on this directive that a leading governorship aspirant Rt. Hon. Dimeji Bankole and eight other aspirants obeyed the directive and withdrew from participating in the primary while only two aspirants were recalcitrant and took part in the primary.
“Will it then not amount to grave injustice to Rt. Hon. Bankole and the eight other aspirants if the NWC decides to uphold the result of such illegal primary?
“We believe that Rt. Hon. Dimeji Bankole and his colleagues should be hailed for their obedience and discipline rather than crucified and punished through the acceptance of an unauthorized primary.
“It is in this light that we regard the protest of Monday, December 15, 2014 in Abeokuta by Mr Gboyega Isiaka’s supporters as nothing but a red herring, orchestrated to cause unnecessary panic and confusion within the rank and file of PDP in Ogun State”.
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