The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dispelled allegations that the party favoured Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose in the state primary election that produced his Deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola as the party’s flagbearer in the July 14 gubernatorial election.
The Deputy National Secretary of the party, Emmanuel Agboh, said this in Abuja on Wednesday.
While addressing the party’s gubernatorial aspirants in the Osun State poll, Agboh said, “We urge all of you to engage in meaningful discussion and if you are unable to harmonise, the leadership of the party will not fail in organising a free and fair primary election, just as we did in Ekiti State.
“When we were going to Ekiti, maybe because we have a sitting governor, people thought we will bend the rules, but we stood our grounds and organised the best primary election in recent time.
“To us at the PDP, the definition of leadership in its context was sincerity of purpose, candidates that play by the roles.
“We are not going to organise a primary for or against an individual, we are going to do it because that is the needful that we must do to win Osun state.
“This is a golden opportunity for you all, that instead of about 300,000 members of PDP in Osun state to decide who becomes the party’s candidate, 11 of you should go and decide who will carry the party’s flag at the election.
“We are sure that from the 11 of you here today one of you is the next governor of Osun state.”