Since the ancient days when the Yoruba people began their historical challenges on the plains and the hills of Ile-Ife, we have always been defined by our instinctive integrity, our methodical industry, our consistent loyalty and our steadfastness in protecting and defending the truth.
It is in all these characterization that I have personally lived my life. It is in all these summative portraits that I have pursued my personal and political engagements, strengthened in the resolve that truth, sincerity of purpose, fearlessness, equity, ethical balance are the basic ingredients of a purposeful life. I have gone through many travails in my life. I have climbed the highest hills. and I have been through the lowest valleys. But in all, I have been guided by the holiest of heart’s affection, the genuine and the utmost surrender to the will of the Lord.
But I have never been afraid of a good fight. I have never disengaged from a meaningful challenge. I have always committed myself to any struggle with absolute dedication and unflinching, resolute vision.
It is in this spirit and clarity of selfless engagement that I decided to run for the National Chairmanship position of our great party. I did not enter the contest for any personal benefits. I did not throw myself into
the fray because of some pecuniary benefits. I have come to serve. I have come to offer myself because I believe in the greater glory of our party and in the growth and development of our nation. I have served continuously for 10 years in various high level positions in our party administration, including the second highest
echelon of Deputy National Chairman.
With all sense of humility, I can say that I know the workings and all the administrative processes and the tools of making our party work. That shattering and very divisive crises of the last two years have made our party very vulnerable, weak and basically tottering on the
edges of the cliff.
Less than one year before the next general election, our party must now elect new managers to direct our affairs. The foremost of these new managers is the position of the National Chairman.
In this highly challenging scenario, the party naturally needs an experienced, trusted, proven, reliable and astute administrator who can guide our party to the land of redemption and the land of triumphant rebound.
It is in this vein that I have offered my humble service to lead our party. But more importantly, I have entered the contest on the fundamental predication of the micro
zoning principle as laid down by our founding fathers.
The zoning principle, which was publicly reinforced last year in Port Harcourt, had specifically and rightly affirmed the South-West as the zone to produce the National Chairman.
This binding proclamation was based on equity, fairness and natural balance that hold any organisation together.
But this old, legitimate and morally sound micro zoning principle has now been trashed, dumped in the waste bin, flung into the gutter by very little men who have compromised the pivotal moral anchor of civilised engagement for temporary selfish gains.
Everywhere you look, the Yoruba people are now being brazenly insulted. The very traditional fiber of our founding fathers are now being trampled upon, debased and soiled by external forces and mercenary traitors within.
It appears the PDP is now bent on self destruction. It has obviously allowed money moguls to dictate its thematic largeness. The party has lost its soul. It has lost its principled beginning and the predications of righteousness. It has traded the finer principles of democratic guidance and equity for the squalid, dirty and shameful resort to mercenary agenda where
nothing matters save the putrid, oafish gains of
the moment.
I cannot be part of this screaming aberration. And as the Atona of Yoruba land, I do not expect any well meaning, well disciplined, forthright, sincere Omoluabi of Yoruba land to continue with this deceit and shameful theater.
The Peoples Democratic Party has now mangled and distorted its soul and spirit. There is no morality here anymore. There is no sanity or any sense of enlightened civility. As a result of these observed aberrations wherein the position of the National Chairman has been apparently sold and auctioned to the highest bidder, I, as an Omoluabi and as an authentic Atona of Yorubaland, will not partake in this charade.
I, hereby, withdraw from this brazen fraud and absolutely preconceived, monetized, mercantilist convention. The Yoruba people have been openly maligned.
The Yoruba have been savaged, tormented, treated with contempt, scurried, scoffed at, humiliated and denigrated by little men whose sun will soon set.
As a Yoruba patriot and the pathfinder of Yoruba land, I will stand by our people, I will stay with them thick or thin, I will fight for their good cause without compromising any ethics.
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike must as a matter of priority and ethical importance tender unreserved apology to the people of Yoruba land for his unguarded utterances on national television this morning. It was a show of shame.
I thank you all for listening.
OLABODE IBIYINKA GEORGE, CON
ATONA ODUDUWA OF YORUBA LAND

I think PDP is really heading towards self destruct.

They learnt no lesson from before.

PDP is dead long ago. Walking corpse now

Bode is trying to turn it into a tribal affair.

Go and sit down baba. You have lost simple

Please who again introduced tribalism into Nigerian politics during the 1st republic?

Now they have started again. Stop giving ethnic coloration to this, Pa George.

Where were you when Secondus was consulting nationally?

Who for vote am sef?

Bode George should shut up and withdraw quietly without dragging the Yoruba race into his personal loss. Politicians are only good at drumming up tribal sentiments when things don't go their way. If Wike had bankrolled his candidacy, he won't be blowing all these grammar.

SouthEastFacts:
Please who again introduced tribalism into Nigerian politics during the 1st republic?

Now they have started again. Stop giving ethnic coloration to this, Pa George.

Where were you when Secondus was consulting nationally?

Secondus did not do any national consulting. Wike is practically buying the PDP chairmanship for him and Fayose is playing along with the hope that he will be the vice presidential candidate in 2019.

seunmsg:


Secondus did not do any national consulting. Wike is practically buying the PDP chairmanship for him and Fayose is playing along with the hope that he will be the vice presidential candidate in 2019.

seunmsg:

Secondus did not do any national consulting. Wike is practically buying the PDP chairmanship for him and Fayose is playing along with the hope that he will be the vice presidential candidate in 2019.

Go and read Okupe press release.

Fayose is hoping. But won't get it. He needs to win Ekiti first.

With a 346 delegates, SW doesn't have a bargaining power against SE/SS combined 856 delegates, 10 Governors and over 25 Senators, a sitting DSP, former President, National Chairman and 2 Presidential Aspirants. What can SW boast of 346 delegates, 1 Governor and 3 Senators.

Outside the National Covention, what are the two bringing to the table, Anambra votes alone will cancel out the votes APC might use to win SW, just like last Presidential election showed.

Bode use the door on your left and leave the ground

We shall see where this leads to after today's convention though.

There is an old saying, anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Being a leader is not about being perfect. It's about weathering the storm and carrying on...

Pa Bode can't weather the storm PDP is going thru now.... So desperate measures needs to be considered...

The Yoruba's were asked to nominate one or two consensus candidate, to enable them give Secondus and his backers a run for their money, but in typical Nigerian fashion they chose not too. So who do you blame for that?

I wonder what took him so long to realise this fact .
Upon all Jonathan and his goons did and said...
I couldn't give a toss about PDP or APC .
Both parties are occupied by derelicts and nincompoops.
To me , both parties are anti - everything the Yoruba should aspire for .
The reforms needed ,
the change in orientation,
the decency needed ,
the moral uprightness ,
the administrative competence needed everywhere
The entire Nigerian political system makes conservatives look like progressives while thugs are the conservatives.
Every sensible Yoruba would work hard to insulate , inoculate and isolate the Yoruba Nation from the larger Nigerian polity .
Yorubal leaders governing Yoruba land for the Yoruba people on behalf of future Yoruba not yet born
That polity has doomed itself for destruction.

seunmsg:
Bode George should shut up and withdraw quietly without dragging the Yoruba race into his personal loss. Politicians are only good at drumming up tribal sentiments when things don't go their way. If Wike had bankrolled his candidacy, he won't be blowing all these grammar.

As if Omo Oduduwa send these losers to pdp, thank you jare eyan mi,