ENDORSEMENT GALORE AS OGUN APC HOLDS GOVERNORSHIP CAMPAIGN RALLY IN SAGAMU, LABOUR, ACCORD PARTY MEMBERS DECAMP TO APC The go
Governorship campaign of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in
Ogun State has received a major boost on Tuesday as the campaign train moved to
the Sagamu local government area of the State for its governorship rally in the
community.
At the campaign rally, which took
place at the Akarigbo palace ground, party chieftains took turns to eulogise the
quality virtues of the party’s candidate, while admonishing them to vote for
him at the forthcoming governorship election in the State.
Addressing party faithful at the
rally, a former deputy governor of the state, Prince Segun Adesegun assured
residents that the APC government under Prince Abiodun will be fair to all. He
also charged them to ignore calls by certain elements who have left the party for
them to divide their votes among APC and other political parties, stating that some political parties have expressed readiness to decamp to APC to support the emergence of Abiodun at the poll. He enjoined
them to cast all their votes for the APC candidates at all levels.
Speaking in the same vein, another
former deputy governor of Ogun State, Senator Gbenga Kaka enjoined Sagamu and
Ogun state residents to give their total support to the APC, stating that the
party guarantees the delivery of democracy dividends to residents of Ogun
State.
The rally was later turned into a
platform for the endorsement of the APC candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun by
different political parties, traditional institutions as well as ethnic and
trade groups.
Leader of the Ogun State Hausa
political movement, Alh Garuba, who spoke on behalf of the state’s Hausa
community also assured Prince Abiodun and all APC candidates of block votes
from all northerners in the state. To demonstrate their support, the group
presented a branded APC agbada and a gown to Prince Dapo Abiodun and his
deputy, Engr Noimot Oyedele-Salako.
Speaking on behalf of Sagamu Council
of Baales, Chief Moshood Agbolade Dawodu, Baale Ajegunle-Ogijo assured Prince
Abiodun of landslide victory across communities in the entire Sagamu, Remo and
OPgun State in general. He added that, being a Remo sons, the Baale’s would
mobilize their subjects to vote for the APC candidate.
Labour Party chairman in Sagamu local
government, Hon Abiodun Otasanya also used the opportunity to formally announce
his defection and that of members of his
party in Sagamu local government to the APC to ensure victory for the APC
governorship candidate.
In his brief address at the rally,
the man of the moment and APC governorship candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun
assured party supporters and residents of an all-inclusive government, if
elected into office in 2019.
He also cleared the air on the
purported endorsement of President Muhammed Buhari by certain political party
in the state, ‘don’t mind anybody that tells you Buhari is our candidate. They
are people who want to reap where they did not sow. President Buhari is a
member and presidential candidate of the APC. They only want to use the
popularity and acceptance of the President and our party for their selfish
interest’, he stressed.
Abiodun also used the occasion to
present the party’s candidates for the House of Representatives, Otunba
Adewunmi Onanauga and the two house of assembly candidates in Sagamu Constituency
1 and 2, Hon Segun Shitta and Hon Sunday Olalekan Oyesanya.
The rally was witnessed by party
chieftains cross Sagamu local government, led by a former commissioner for Health
and leader of the Ijebu-Remo Agenda, Chief Tolu Dawodu.
The leader of Ogun State Hausa Community making their presentation to Prince Dapo Abiodun and his deputy, Engr Noimot Oyedele-Salako |
A section of party faithfuls at the rally |
Another section of party faithfuls at the rally |
Mamoth crowd at the Sagamu rally |
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