Kunle Adelabu
A leader in the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Senatorial leader, The Mandate Group (TMG), Nigerian and Diaspora, Primate Charles Odugbesi, JP, has denied that the leadership of the group are against any nominee from lkorodu, for Commissionership position.
Odugbesi was a former State Secretary, APC, emphatically stated that the group is not staging any protest against the nomination of Ms Abisola Olusanya, for re-appointment as a Commissioner, by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu.
The party leader, in a statement titled, ‘The Purported Protest By Ikorodu Division Mandate Movement Against The Candidature Of A Nominee’, and which a copy was sent to THE IMPACT, denied the allegation outrightly.
“It has come to our notice, a rumour going round that some members of The Mandate Group in Ikorodu division, loyal to both Cardinal James Omolaja Odunmbaku, JP., MFR and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are planning to stage a protest against the nomination of one of Ikorodu indigenes, particularly Ms Olusanya, daughter of one of the chieftains of APC in the state. We have come out to unequivocally deny any such move either in dream or in reality”, the statement said.
“The Mandate Movement, on our part, will never go against the nomination of any indigene of Ikorodu or any person at all for any position in the state or on a national level. If the Governor, who the lady worked with, deemed it fit that she is good to go again, so be it. A good term, to us, deserves another term. One of our group’s aims and objectives does not include blocking people’s chances”.
He emphasized that his group is not in any way opposed to any nominee, adding that the allegations were fabricated by enemies.
“So, I, Primate Charles Odugbesi, JP, the leader of the Group in Ikorodu division, deny any such move or thought. So, it is an imagination of some dubious people who are enemies of good things for Ikorodu division, and we, hereby, distance ourselves from such move”, he said.
“Our prayer is that whoever is or are chosen to represent us, will have the spirit of love and fear of God, to carry out their assignments”.
