Ogun PDP Berates Bankole For Dropping Jonathan, Mu’azu’s Names

Ahead of the
2015 general elections, the Forum of
Local Government Chairmen in Ogun
State chapter of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), has cautioned aspirants
and their sponsors against name-
dropping.
The warning came on the heels of
reports that Chief Alani Bankole, the
father of former Speaker of the House
of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole,
stormed a recent meeting of the forum
and boasted that his son has been
assured the state PDP’s governorship
ticket by President Goodluck Jonathan
and Alhaji Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu, the
national chairman of the party.
In a statement yesterday by the
Chairman of PDP in Abeokuta South
Local Government and Chairman of the
Forum, Hon. Kehinde Sofenwa, the group
said: “The elder Bankole’s conduct is
unbecoming of an elder and a
democrat. We urge him and his son to
follow the due process and not seek to
usurp constituted authority.
“We know that the decision to drop the
name of the President and the national
chairman is one of the many lies that
the Bankoles are telling in order to
hoodwink unsuspecting members of the
party. But we remain undeterred and
urge our members across the state to
remain firm.
“We recall that some months back, they
were going about to say that the
President and the National Chairman
had assured them that the authentic
and legally constituted State Exco of our
party would be dissolved. But till date,
nothing of such has happened. Rather,
the party, under the leadership of our
able Chairman, Engr. Adebayo Dayo, is
waxing stronger.
“Much as we shudder to think if it is the
younger Bankole that is in the race or
the father, we wish to state without
mincing words that all these lies are
unfounded”.