WAR OVER 2015 P.D.P GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARIES IN LAGOS
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
…………………………………………..THICK FOG SURROUNDS AGBAJE’S WIN
……………………………………………AGBAJE IS SON OF THE GODS
…………………………………………….BODE GEORGE IS AGBAJE’S GODFATHER
…………………………………………….DOLLAR WAR INSIDE BOTH CAMPS
……………………………………………..FOREIGN CURRENCIES NOW TOILET PAPER
TO POLITICIANS IN NIGERIA
…………………………………………….TENSION BETWEEN KORO’S CAMP AND BODE
GEORGE’S CAMP
…………………………………………….HEAVYWEIGHTS BARE MINDS TO PAEDIA EXPRESS
…………………………………………..DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE KOKUMO IN
CHARGE OF SECURITY
………………………………………..’KORO’S CAMP ACCUSE AGBAJE OF BEEN TINUBU’S
IMPLANT
…………………………………………KORO’S CAMP ALLEGE TINUBU FORKED OUT
N4BILLION TO BODE GEORGE
TO SELL P.D.P’S CHANCES IN 2007
…………………………………….BUSINESS MOGULS:DOHERTY, GBADAMOSI FIGHT
PANEL OVER CONDUCT OF ELECTION.AMBASSDAOR KAMSON SAYS THEIR WAS VOTE STUFFING
…………………………………….HOW 806 ACCREDITED DELEGATES BECAME 863
REMAINS A MYSTERY THAT ONLY P.D.P. PANEL LED BY SEENATOR KUMO CAN ACTUALLY
ANSWER
…………………………………IF PARTY DOES NOT LISTEN,KORO WILL TAKE LEGAL
ACTION.
………………………………….KORO DISPLAYS EXTRA-ORDINARY CALMENESS IN FACE
OF SEVERE
INTIMIDATION
For Senator Musiliu Obanikoro ,the immediate Minister for
state in the Ministry of Defense in Nigeria is back to the trenches as he
attempts to re strategies and still re
coup something out of his fading governorship hopes.
While going home on his way from his campaign office at
around two in the morning of 9th December ,he looked Paedia Express
Multimedia in the eye and told him straight away that he will not accept the results
of the primaries as announced by Senator Saidu Kumo, chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party panel on governorship elections in Lagos for 2015.
At this ,he went into his jeep in the company of a retinue
of personal aides and political admirers and drove off with two of his
children: Ibrahim and Gbolahan following daddy closely all the time.
Earlier on in the day,this reporter got inside Yard I58
Venue of the primaries at around three o clock local time amidst a very tight
regime of security as bomb sniffing and unfriendly looking Alsatian dogs were
seen looking to pounce on any one that misbehaves.
An estimated 50 to 80 well armed anti-riot policemen led by
Deputy Commissioner of Police I.B.Kokumo were in charge of the highly charged
atmosphere as the political camps of Chief
Olabode George and the youthful looking and vibrant Senator Musiliu Obanikoro were
ready to have a go at each other.
Infact minutes before this reporter got to the place the
police had to tear gas the crowd as a result of violence with a woman losing consciousness
as she was without her inhaler been an asthmatic patient.
The unidentified woman needed the kiss of life and urgent
first aid to get to her feet based on the accounts given to this reporter.
At around three thirty ,Paedia Express Multimedi after some frantic
phone calls was reliably informed that at least 65 to 70 percent of the key loyalists
of Senator Obanikor gunning for elective positions in the party had won this
leading to permutations that the highly respected politician from Lagos island
may carry the day against the equally brilliant Technocrat,Mr Jimmy Agbaje.
Chief Olabode George while speaking exclusively to Paedia
Express Multimedia said that the state of Lagos had been in darkness for so
long and it was now time for the party to select a good candidate who will do
battle with the rest in 2015 elections.
He explained that it was critical for the party to get it
right at the polls by getting the right man so that they can win in 2015 elections.
He denied in very strong terms that he was loosening the
screws for Mr Jimmy Agbaje.
Former Deputy Governor of Lagos state ,Chief Mrs Kofoworola
Bucknor Akerele told Paedia Express Multimedia that she was happy that despite
the initial air of tension at the event the security in place was able to check
the situation.
In a statement made to a
cross section of the Nigerian media at the event, Senator Obanikoro said
that it was too early for anybody to say that he has won the elections as only
God gives victory but that he will do all that was required by law to win.
He urged his supporters to remain calm in the face of what
he believed was the air of intimidation at the venue.
Mr Deji Doherty affirmed his resilience when he told this
reporter that no matter the outcome he will continue to work for progress
within the rank and file of the party.
Mr Agbaje told Paedia Express Multimedia exclusively that if
he was been touted as a front runner in the primaries then it was not out of
place if he goes ahead to actually win the race.
He noted that those who claimed that he arrived very late
into the party were only been mischievous and economical with the truth as they
do not have all the facts.
His words:”if somebody says to you that you are born by your
mother ,then it behooves on you to run
back to your mother to ask her whether it is true or not,so they should check there
facts”
Dr Mrs Modupe Felicia Chuckwunenke ,an aspirant later
withdrew from the race as she pledged that she will be willing to work with any
of the aspirants that emerged at the polls.
She lamented the bad treatment meted out to non-natives by the Governor Raji Fashola administration and
called on her rivals to try to correct this anomaly if any one of them eventually
comes to office in 2015.
While the voting was going on, Chief Babatunde Gbadamosi and
Mr Deji Doherty were seen in full public glare complain bitterly about the conduct
of the elections but Senator Kumo did not appear to be disturbed.
This reporter later gathered exclusively through Ifako
Ijaiye delegates that they were going to be paid $1,500 each for voting just
like there other colleagues across the state by Mr Jimmy agbaje
It was also gathered that Senator Musiliu Obanikoro forked
out a sum of $1,000 each to each of the delegates in the state aside from sums ranging from
$48,000,$45,000,$40,000,$35,000,$30,000,$30,000 each given to the coordinators
of all the local government depending on the population that they commanded.
Mr Deji Doherty is believed to have spent a sum of N30,000
each for each of the delegates ,though the other aspirants also spent money but
this reporter did not have full details of this as at press time.
However it was noteworthy to point out that most of this
cash transactions took place in the cosy confines of hotel rooms and not in
full public glare as politicians have perfected a clever way to evade the press
and security agencies.
Obanikor’s supporters blamed Chief Bode George for been the
reason behind the party’s woes in the state,they claimed that he collected a
sum of N4Billion from Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2007 to frustrate their
principal.
They also alleged that Mr Jimmy Agbaje was a Tinubu implant
in the party through Chief Bode George
so as to nip the possible victory of the PDP in the bud.
In the end,Mr Jimmy Agbaje ,a pharmacist and business tycoon
polled a vote of 432 as against Senator Obanikoro’s 343 votes with remaining aspirants
having a paltry 88 votes when combined.
Senior PDP big wigs like Chief Olabode George,Mr Deji Doherty,Mr
Jimmy Agbaje,Chief Mrs Kofoworola Bucknor Akerele,Senator Saidu Kumo,Ambassador
Tokunbo Kamson,Businessman Babatunde Gbadamosi were all at the event venue.
CHIEF OLABODE GEORGE RUNS THE SHOW IN LAGOS
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