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Former Senate Minority Leader and senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District, Chief Biodun Olujimi, has pleaded with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and other governors, as well as other aggrieved members of his team in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to sheathe their swords and support the party to win the 2023 presidential election.
Olujimi, who lauded Wike and aggrieved members of his team for fighting for justice, equity and fairness in the party, however, urged them to look at the bigger picture of rescuing the people who are traumatised by the alleged misrule of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Ekiti State senator spoke in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, during an interactive session with newsmen on the crisis rocking the party and the pressure put on the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to back Iyorchia Ayu’s removal for a chairman of southern extraction.
She said that in their quest to get the national chairman of the party out of office, the aggrieved governors did not give proper thought to the Constitution of the party that stipulates that when a chairman of the party resigns, the deputy chairman from his zone takes over from him.
Olujimi said: “Political parties are like families and there is nothing you can do without bruising each other. We have a lot of internal crises caused by ego bruising. I believe we are working on it. Despite the fact that we have problems, the party is working. We are meeting with the people that are yearning for our return to government. We are working hard to ensure that the right things are done.
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“We can’t go to the extent of destroying the house we have built. I am optimistic that we will achieve our set goals. The people who are agitating may be right because the agreement is that when a candidate of northern extraction emerges as a presidential candidate, it will be wrong to retain the chairman in the North. But we didn’t think through our Constitution.
“If we remove the Chairman, the Deputy National Chairman (North) will still take over. The governors that are agitating are fighting for justice and equity. But there is a school of thought that believed that the South had done 14 years of presidency in the PDP and the North had only done two. There is nothing wrong with looking at all these issues.
“I want to beg Wike. Let him allow a middle course so that we can work towards a common goal.”
“It is not about him. He is a good party man, he loves the PDP, but we should allow peace to reign.”
On her re-election in 2023, Olujimi declared that she would defeat his rival and member of the House of Representatives, Yemi Adaramodu, despite enjoying strong backing from the federal and state governments, as she did in 2019 when she defeated Dayo Adeyeye of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Olujimi said that she was not rattled contesting against Adaramodu and also not terrified by federal and state might his opponent enjoys.
