By Lagos State PDP
We have gathered here
today to update Nigerians particularly Lagosians on the
facts of the issues
that have surrounded the conduct of the Governorship primary
of the Peoples
Democratic Party PDP in Lagos State on Monday and the
aftermath of it
particularly as it has to do with the conduct of one of the
aspirants who
participated in the election, Senator Musiliu
Obanikoro.







We have overtime raised
several issues concerning the conduct of Mr. Musiliu
Obanikoro months before
the eventual conduct of the election. Our organization, the
Concerned Lagos PDP
Youth 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 his needless battle against
the elders of the
PDP in the State, many of whom were instrumental to his
coming and rising to
whatever position he has assumed since he joined the PDP
from his 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 looks for trouble where there is none. Wanting
all things to
himself as if he were the only begotten son of
God.



We need to remind
Lagosians that Musiliu Obanikoro is a politician whose
business is getting
power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician
who asks individuals
to surrender part of their liberty, their power and
privilege so he can run it
as his personal estate.






He seems to be
interested in people, not that this is always a virtue he
possess but as simply
as fleas are interested in dogs. He is a politician who
wants to keep everything
to himself against Organised unproductiveness.


In the last few days, Mr. Obanikoro
has busied himself with the media war of
disparaging the leaders of our great party and the candidate
of the PDP in
person of Mr. Jimi Agbaje owning to his inability to clinch
the party ticket.
Obanikoro has resorted to telling blatant lies about the
events which we have
well documented. On the so called allegation of over-voting
at the primaries,
we wish to state that Musiliu Obanikoro is not being
Honorable and such a
person in the first place cannot be entrusted with the
destiny of over
18million Lagosians as their Governor which he has
inordinately aspired to be.
Obanikoro’s antecedents are not exactly ennobling. He
should tell Lagosians
about his involvement in the fire that gutted the Lagos City
hall during his
tenure as the Chairman of the Local government. Lagosians
are interested in
knowing if he actually finished from his claimed Ahmadiya
college in Agege. Is
Musiliu Obanikoro the son of the same Onikoro man who came
from Idi Ape in
Ibadan? Why hide your parentage? Surely, Lagosians are not
gullible. Obanikoro
is not electable in the general election and that is why PDP
delegates
reasonably rejected him.



His conduct like we
observed is also being encouraged by one Dr. Tokunbo Pearce,
a failed guber
aspirant of the PDP who could not even purchase a nomination
form to
participate at the primaries but have resorted into crying
foul over a process
he was never a part of .



For the purpose of
records, we wish to restate that in the course of the
primaries, the six
Governorship aspirants contesting the election 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 at 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 a simple arithmetic, if a deduction of the
58delegates that Obanikoro
is building his protest upon is made, Mr. Jimi Agbaje still
remains the clear
winner of the Monday 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
that Obanikoro’s dirty politics in making their choice. It
will be unserious
for the PDP in Lagos to field a candidate with questionable
characters and
irregular qualifications as a
challenger
to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC, Akin
Ambode who is not
only a Chartered Accountant but also meets the requisite
agitation in the
political circle for a Governorship candidate from the East
axis of Lagos and
Christian Faith.

It is quite unfortunate
that there is nothing so bad that politics cannot make worse
or how else can we
describe the being fortunate of an undeserved apologist like
Musiliu Obanikoro?

Now, Obanikoro believes,
may be like he runs his home that no one else can be
Governor of Lagos state
but him under the platform of the PDP even when he seems to
be the least
qualified of all aspirants. We ask who Obanikoro is actually
afraid of or has
governorship of any state become chieftaincy title that is
automatic?

As the Younger
Generation of Party members in Lagos, we have resolved to
henceforth call to order,
Mr. Obanikoro and his likes whenever they are out to bring
the corporate
integrity of the PDP into disrepute. We have always been
suspicious of the
character called Obanikoro whose relationship with folks in
the household of
his former Principal, former Governor Bola Tinubu remain as
cordial as ever. We
are not unaware that until the late hours on the eve of the
Governorship
primaries, Mr. Obanikoro was locked in a long meeting with a
Senatorial
aspirant of the APC, Mr. Demola Seriki in Ikeja. This raises
further concern
that Mr. Obanikoro is a mole within the party and will never
be allowed to
truncate the prospect of the desired change that our great
party is bringing to
Lagosians in Mr. Jimi Agbaje come 2015.