COMMUNIQUE OF THE SOUTH WEST PDP LEADERS HELD IN LAGOS 25TH JUNE, 2013

The South West leaders of the PDP held a summit on 25th June, 2013 in Lagos in a deliberate and conscious effort to re-strategize and reposition the party towards regaining and reclaiming the South West States in the forthcoming elections. The meeting which was well attended by elders and key stakeholders in the zone hereby resolved as follows:

1. Having been briefed of the outcome of the leaders meeting with the President, the stakeholders resolved that the BOT members should continue to pressurize the Presidency on the need to accommodate the South West in the remaining executive positions in the Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

2. Elders agreed that there is a need for peace and unity in the zone and that everyone should see the 2014 elections in Osun and Ekiti states as a starting point for the return of PDP to governance and relevance.

3. The zonal leadership upheld the status quo as regards the present zonal offices and positions in strict compliance with approved guidelines of the NEC as announced by the convention committee and called on the leaders in each state to encourage candidates with requisite experience, integrity and loyalty to the party to contest.

4. The leaders resolved to support and respect the decision of the national leadership to reposition the party.

5. The leaders acknowledged and support the guidelines approved by NEC which disqualify all members of the care-taker committee from contesting any of the position in the forthcoming zonal congress and national convention.

6. Elder Wole Oyelese’s motion which acknowledges the significant selfless leadership of Chief Olabode George in the South West was upheld unanimously. The meeting commended Chief Bode George for his leadership steps in the resolution of the challenges facing the South West and he was endorsed to continue the leadership of the zone in the interface with the Presidency.

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Sen Bode Olajumoke.

Alhaji Yekeen Ade Ojo

Recall confused Tinubu, says Lagos PDP

Opeyemi Adesina

The Lagos State PDP has described the confessional statement by senator Oluremi Tinubu that she cannot understand the operations of the senate and indeed confused about the workings of the Senate as the long awaited evidence needed to commence the Recall of the confused Senator.

The party therefore calls on the registered voters in the lagos central Senatorial district to immediately commence the recall process of the Senator without further delay.

The Party opines that Senator Oluremi Tinubu has not only performed below expectation on the floor of the Senate, she has indeed not initiated any successful bill to justify her membership of the senate.

Worse still, Senator Oluremi Tinubu also acted dishonourably when she chastised her Senator colleagues for acts not proved when she alleged that "they don't go home to their people"

She has also misapplied the privilege of being the senator representing the most strategic senatorial district in the state, even though she is non-lagosian. An experience that may not encourage lagos indigenes to allow non indigenes hold sensitive political office henceforth.

She also said unequivocally that she has not been able to understand the workings of the senate. "What then is she still doing in the Senate. This is a vindication of our cry that the senators representing lagos are not fit and proper to defend the interest of the state.

Indeed another product of imposition is now obviously not prepared for the job.

The senator should resign honourably or face imminent recall".

The senator had on Saturday asserted this view during her meeting with some NEWS editors she organised to give reports of her stay in the Senate and also to denounce the popular belief that she is interested in the Governorship of the State in 2015.

Kalu delivers OPC's June 12 lecture

A former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, will on Wednesday deliver a lecture to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.

The election, described as the freest and fairest so far in the democratic journey of Nigeria, was won by late business mogul, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola.

It was annulled by the military regime of retired General Ibrahim Babangida.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the election, Kalu will speak on the topic: "20 years after June 12: Options for survival," at a lecture organized by the Oodua People's Congress.

The lecture, which holds at Excellence Hotel, Ogba, Lagos State, on June 12 at 11am, according to the National Coordinator of the OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, who is also the Chief Host, will have Kalu as the Guest Speaker and renowned academic, Prof. Akin Oyebode as Chairman.

The Special Guests of Honour for the lecture will be the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji; a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Dame Priscilla Kuye; and the President, Campaign for Democracy/Women Arise, Dr. Joe-Okei-Odumakin.