Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has insisted that all its candidates emerged through consensus.
It adds that the party did not impose any candidate on the people.
The party disclosed this through its Kwara South Senatorial Chairman, Bisi Fakayode while reacting to a protest by some youths in Offa, against the choice of Hassan Oyeleke, as the House of Representatives candidate for Ifelodun/Offa/Oyun Federal Constituency.
Addressing Journalists in Offa, Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State, the party’s South Senatorial Chairman, Bisi Fakayode, noted that there was no imposition from any quarters, saying the Kwara South senatorial leadership of the PDP, accepts full responsibility for all the candidates that have so far emerged.
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Some youths recently staged a protest in Offa, against the process that led to the nomination of the House of Representatives candidate of the party for Ifelodun/Offa/Oyun Federal Constituency for the 2023 elections.
Meanwhile, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees, (BoT), Ebun Owolabi, has used the forum to appeal to aggrieved members of the party, to be magnanimous in defeat, saying that it is in members’ unity, that the PDP will wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), at the state and national levels.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
