Ibadan S’ East/N’ East Federal Constituency: PDP stakeholders fault Adeleke’s consensus claims

Stakeholders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the aegis of Concerned Ibadan Southeast/Northeast Forum have said  the statement credited to  Dare Adeleke, a member of the party

in Ibadan South East, on consensus candidate for Ibadan South East/North East federal constituency that the aspirants have agreed,  is far from the truth, describing it as mischievous and attempted calculation to distort the information to mislead people of the constituency.

The PDP stakeholders said Adeleke was not part of the resolution, noting that he came to the meeting that lasted for hours at the residence of Deputy National Chairman (South) Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja and spent just twenty minutes before he left.

It would be recalled that after a series of meetings by the aspirants, leaders and stakeholders from the constituency, they failed to agree on consensus at a meeting held at Ambassador Arapaja’s house on Monday afternoon.

The aspirants called on the leadership of the party to allow them to test their popularity based on their political antecedents.

The aspirants present at the  meeting where they could not reach consensus and thereafter opted for primary included a United Kingdom-based Nigerian medical consultant, Kazeem Sina Olasupo popularly known as KSO, Akeem Ige, Deji Aboderin, Laide Ali among others.

After the meeting at Arapaja’s house, in the evening, they proceeded to government house to brief Governor Seyi Makinde the outcome of their meeting, where they could not reach consensus.

At the government house, Governor Makinde emphatically told all those present that “anywhere they could not agree on consensus, he has given his consent to go for primary.

It was also gathered that the governor told them point plank that “he has no anointed candidate, that all of them should go to field to test their popularity, which is the beauty of democracy”.

The aspirants also pledged their support for whoever emerges as the party’s candidate provided such is a product of primary election which is the wishes of all members of the party and tenet of democratic setting.

Reacting to Adeleke’s claim, Biodun Adebola for Concern IBSE/IBNE Forum, said such utterances from Adeleke is not new as he is synonymous with mischievous, distortion of information and a political jobber.

He said it is a pity that the calibre of Adeleke did not know the meaning of consensus.

“And it is open secret that non of the aspirants at Ambassador Arapaja’s house agreed to consensus, where on earth did Adeleke, who spent just twenty minutes out of meeting that lasted for almost three hours got his own information.

“Electoral act as amended in 2022 consensus should be 100 percent agreeable by the aspirants, where one of the aspirants disagree, primary is the next option”.