The campaign team of the incumbent Chairman of Ikorodu Local Government Area, Lagos State, Honourable Wasiu Adeshina (WADESH), has refuted the news making rounds that Aarebirin Folashade Olabanji Oba and Azeez Jimoh Olosugbo have been picked as preferred candidates of All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead the local council primary election in Ikorodu.
The Director General of WADESH Campaign team, Comrade Adeleke Sayleke, made this known in a statement issued on Thursday, May 27, 2021.
Describing what he called propaganda as “erroneous, mischievous and unfounded, the Director General said that it holds no water in any democratic setting.
He stated: “The attention of the campaign team of Honourable Wasiu Adeshina, the incumbent chairman of Ikorodu Local Government, a critical stakeholder and an aspirant in the coming election, has been drawn to a deceitful propaganda and deliberate attempt to mislead the party members and the entire public of their purported endorsement of some candidates of the party in Ikorodu Local Government.
“The assertion is erroneous, mischievous, unfounded and holds no water, which is contrary to the norms of democracy in any democratic setting.
“We hereby debunk the claim in its entirety. Honourable Wasiu Adeshina is ready for the direct primary that is prescribed by the party as the only means of choosing party candidates.
“Their action was that of indiscipline, desperation, and handiwork of misguided elements within the political folds in Ikorodu to cause crisis.
“Furthermore, we urge our amiable members to be calm, embrace peace and disregard their purported imposition, for the progress of the party.
“We want to state unequivocally that Hon. Wasiu Adeshina believes in the credibility and the capability of the party to organise and coordinate a free and fair direct primary election, as it had been done in the past, and this will not be an exception.
“It will interest you to know that our amiable national leader Jagaban Borgu, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a plain language said he had no annointed candidates. Where consensus does not work, we should all go for party primary (undiluted), and on Asiwaju’s position and directive we stand.”
The Campaign Team urged all party faithful to come out on Saturday, May 29, at their various wards with their APC membership slips, to cast their votes for Honourable Wasiu Ayodeji Adesina for second term, so that he would continue the good work he is doing.
“Finally we want to express our commitment to the procedure specified by the party to engender acceptable candidate for the party without fear or favour. Second, we urge our party members to be law-abiding before, during and after the primaries. We shall explore all avenues to maintain peace and any further development,” the DG added.
