Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu PDP Primaries: Tell The Truth and Stop Living In Deceit

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I have taken my time to have full retrospect of Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency PDP Primary Election which held last week. What played out during the primary election is simple and easy to understand.
Reason some of the aspirants resorted to blackmailing Hon. Teejay Yusuf over an election they all colluded to disrupt and which later turn around in favour of their suppose victim should be critically looked into.
It’s no more news there was late arrival of election materials that day and over the years, there had always been issues of late arrival of election materials in the federal constituency. In 2011, due to late arrival of materials, the PDP primary election between Hon. Teejay Yusuf and Sen. Dino Melaye was concluded late in the midnight, Hon. Teejay even provided lightening for the venue when it was getting dark.
From past experience, most party primaries always last till midnight and this is evident in the just concluded 2018 PDP primaries across the state.
On the fateful day, the party officials didn’t show up on time, aspirants, delegates and party supporters were at the venue waiting for the party officials till about 12midnight. When it was getting darker, it was same Hon. Teejay that made arrangement  for the venue to be lightened up in order to have a conducive environment for the exercise.
After few hours of waiting, some aspirants and delegates left the venue claiming they have been informed that the election have been shifted till the next morning by 8am.
The question is, why would some aspirants and delegates agree to leave the election venue at the same time or on whose authority was the election said to be postponed by the aspirants.
Who postponed the primary election till the next morning, the party or who?
It’s obvious the aspirants out of desperation deliberately cooked up a fake postponement story and hurriedly left the venue to perfect plans on how to stop the primary election from holding.
Your guess is as good as mine as to why the aspirants would want to stop the election from holding.
Few hours after they had left, the party officials arrived and instantly contacted all aspirants and delegates who had left the venue to return for the exercise.
The aspirants were Mr. S.O Adeleye, Arc. Salman Idris, Hon. Nathaniel Taiwo, Abayomi Bello and Musa Yakub.
They all came back to the venue, accreditation of delegates and voting commenced but few minutes later, one of the aspirants henchman who is also a party official of Kabba/Bunu LGA, Eseyin Kayode(1212) disrupted the whole process by attacking party officials and some delegates.
Note that, it’s an open secret that Kayode Eseyin who disrupted the process was one of the aspirants supporter and not with Hon. Teejay Yusuf.
For safety, the party officials hurriedly left the venue after which they met, counted the votes already cast and Hon. Teejay Yusuf emerged as the party candidate.
It’s of note that Hon. Teejay Yusuf stood against the disqualification of some of these aspirants and urged the party to conduct a free and fair primaries but unfortunately it was disrupted by the same aspirants crying foul today.
It’s also important to say that some of the aspirants have confirmed that the said Kayode Eseyin was instructed by them to disrupt the primary election because it was obvious that most of the delegates on ground will vote for Hon. Teejay.
If the decision of the party had favored any of the aspirants, would any of them be protesting the election.
Their plans backfired in favour of Hon. Teejay and now they are crying foul.
We should all ask why one of the aspirants henchman disrupted an election that has already commenced.
We should ask why all the aspirants left the venue at the same time for an unknown destination.
Obviously the aspirants mapped out plans to disrupt the election process using Eseyin Kayode(1212) after smelling defeat but it backfired on them all.
However, everyone will also agree that Kabba/Bunu LG should not be shortchanged in the scheme of political office zoning in the party.
Sen. Dino Melaye from Ijumu got the senate ticket, it will be fair, just and democratic to equally allow other local government have the House of Reps ticket.
It’s on this note, that the national authority of the party had insisted that, for fairness and peace to reign both Senate and House of Reps can not be zoned to the same Ijumu Local Government and therefore agree that status quo be maintain but Hon. Teejay still insisted on participating in the primaries, it finally held and he emerged victorious.
I also wish to briefly address an attempt to paint Hon. Teejay’s third term bid in bad light, may I remind them that Sen.Dino Melaye and Sen. Smart Adeyemi are today jostling for their today third term bid.
Reason they are obsessed with Hon. Teejay third term bid remain a big question to be answered.
With Sen. Dino Melaye as the candidate of the party from Ijumu, it’s only natural that the House of Reps ticket should be allowed to be in Kabba/Bunu LG.
It has also been confirmed that six of the aspirants are already talking to Hon. Teejay in line with the above submission. It’s for fairness sake that Kabba/Bunu LG should be allowed to produce the party candidate for 2019 general elections.
I therefore appeal to other aspirants to toll same line in the interest of the party and development of Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency.
Thank you all.
– Segun Obafemi

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