Saturday 28 June 2014
Jonathan remains our Presidential candidate – Labour party
A chieftain of the Labour Party in Oyo State, Chief Lowo
Obisesan, has dissociated the party from a statement by its
state Chairman, Chief Bashiru Apapa, that it has not adopted
President Goodluck Jonathan as candidate for the 2015
presidential election.
Obisesan, a lawyer and former Commissioner for
Environment in the state, said the position of the entire
membership of Labour Party in the state remained the same
with that of the national leadership and indeed other state
chapters of the party, which endorsed the president as its
candidate for next year’s polls.
In an interview published on yesterday’s (Thursday) edition
of Daily Sun, Chief Apapa declared that the Labour Party had
not adopted Jonathan as its candidate as being speculated,
saying the president had not justified a similar mandate given
to him in 2011.
But Obisesan, in an interview in Ibadan yesterday,
said the entire members of the party in the state were shocked
and embarrassed at Apapa’s view, as it negated the well
known unanimous stand of the party.
He said the Labour Party boss probably had a slip of tongue
as he was aware of the party’s decision. “I’m glad to say that
I’m one of the apex members of the party and I must be
honest with you that the position of the Labour Party at the
national level and all the states is that Jonathan, in 2015 is our
candidate.
“And immediately
I read this
(Apapa’s)
position…
because I know
the opinion of the
party, I called
other apex
members of the
party and they
were not happy
with the news.”
“In asmuch as we
are going to vote for our party in respect of any candidate
that we place for any stake during the election through the
Labour Party, when it comes to presidency, we are going to
vote for Jonathan. He couldn’t have meant it, because he
knows the position of the party at the national level and the
position of Oyo State in particular is what I’m telling you.
As one of the apex members of the party, that is the
instruction that was given to me ”.
Chief Obisesan said the LP was backing the president again,
because apart from representing the party’s programme, he
had tried to keep the country going, despite the overwhelming
challenges facing the country, some of them orchestrated by
political opponents.
“The issue of saying somebody is doing well or not is a
matter of fact. So for us, we believe he’s trying his best. But,
everybody knows that the country is sick for now.
Everything is faulty from the beginning to the end. We are
in support of the way he’s been conducting himself.”
“That is the position of the party as at now and it is not
impossible that it remains like that because we believe in him
and we see him as part of the people that believe in the
programme of our party. We are very happy to associate
ourselves with him ”, he concluded.
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