The former governorship candidate of Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA)
in the 2007 polls in Lagos State, Mr Jimi Agbaje, stormed the party secretariat
in Ikeja with core of his supporters led by Chief Wahab Owokoniran, former
Director-General, Bola Tinubu Campaign Organisation (BATCO) in 1999 and former
Student Union president, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State
,Mr Lanre Adeleke, among others to hold meeting with the party’s State Working
Committee (SWC) members, headed by Captain Tunji Shelle.
Agbaje, who was not disposed to speaking with the press, was as at press
time, also holding another round of meeting with the non- Central Working
Committee of the party to dot the I’s and cross the T’s about strategies to be
adopted by the PDP in order to win the 2015 election.
Addressing the SWC of the party earlier, in what he called a courtesy
visit, Agbaje said he decided to choose the PDP to realise his political
ambition based on common and aggregated opinion among core of his supporters
across the state that the party was the most viable platform interested in
causing the needed change desired by the Lagos people
Agbaje, who was reported to have joined the PDP some months ago and had
been attending the party’s meetings at his Ward B, Apapa 1, said he was
resolved to promote a consensus for what he called a Lagos agenda if given the
opportunity to serve the state in 2015.
The governorship aspirant charged them to always remain united and make
the party open and attractive for more people to join in order for them to make
more meaningful impact on the party.
Responding, the Chairman of Lagos PDP, Captain Shelle, congratulated
Agbaje on coming on board the party, declaring that the PDP was positioned to
win the 2011 poll and form the next government in the state.
Shelle expressed the hope that Lagos people were ready to go the way of
Ekiti people by voting the PDP to power, adding that the greatest opportunity that
the party now had was the “misgovernance started by Tinubu and worsened by
Fashola that has now caused disenchantment among Lagosians in particular and
Nigerians in general.”
He, however, assured Agbaje that the leadership of the party under him
would guarantee a level playing field for all its aspirants in picking who
would eventually fly the governorship flag of PDP in Lagos come 2015.
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