The stakeholder in the Peoples De3mocratric Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Segun Showunmi, has said that the is no division in the party. He assured that all PDP stakeholders and members will accept the judgement of the court on the authentic candidate of the PDP for the 2023 governorship election in Ogun State.
Showunmi, in statement in Lagos, affirmed that there is no division in Ogun PDP, expressing optimism and confidence that he would emerge the PDP candidate for the 2023 governorship election in Ogun State.
Showumi noting the Abuja Court of Appeal’s Consequential Order, dismissing the ruling of a lower court over jurisdiction to hear the suit between him, the PDP and others, said that his campaign for the governorship election would fully begin on September 28, and that his style would be issues-based.
Showunmi said that he would be running a “new deal” that would transform Ogun if elected.
Reiterating his belief in party supremacy both at the national and state levels, Showunmi said that the primary election conducted by the Ladi Adebutu camp remains a charade and would not stand.
According to him: “A political party is the creation of the law and what gives it the right to even claim it is a political party is its constitution and the grand law which is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“No legally created organ can be given the wherewithal to act as if it doesn’t know that it is a creation of the law.
“I actually don’t think we are divided, to be fair. We both accept the supremacy of our national organs. My position is that whatever it is they called their primary is a charade, it can’t hold and it can’t stand.
“The primary election that produced me as candidate followed all the extant laws of the country and in due season, they will definitely come to the point they have to come to.”
Showunmi said that the Court of Appeal had given his camp the first favourable judgment and anticipated that at last he would emerge the authentic governorship candidate in the state.