The current event in Ijumu PDP have shown that there will always be characters and agents of destabilization especially as we are approaching another election time.
Some few group of greedy individuals and self styled political traders whose ultimate goal is to use PDP as an instrument for commercial purposes to swindle intending aspirants have been using series of pseudo name to attack some Ijumu PDP leaders.
We have therefore, decided to correct the impression in other not to mislead loyal PDP members.
We wish is to urgently warn against the use of the name Kogi West PDP Youths by some unscrupulous elements and their followers who have no affiliate with youths except when they want to use the youths for political agendas.
It is important to state that their is no any point in time, morning or at night where Kogi West PDP youths agreed to meet for any discussion or deliberation much more issuing a statement against our revered leader, Sen Dino Melaye.
We are perplexed by this day light impersonation by these same characters who sold out PDP in exchange for money collected from Gov Yahaya Bello of APC during the last Gubernatorial and Senatorial rerun election in Kogi.
We wish to state that we have carried our investigation thoroughly and our findings reveals that non of the local govt youth leaders in Kogi West or the Kogi West Youth leader for that matter was a party to the self serving and childish statement issued against distinguished Senator Dino Melaye.
We wonder why they did not sign the statement if truly it originated from the appropriate youth quarter.
Let it be clear that Kogi West youths holds dearly distinguished Senator Dino Melaye lots of respect, we hold him in a very high esteem any day, anytime.
Kogi West youths have demonstrated their unflinching support, loyalty l and love for Sen. Melaye at every election and will continue to do same by the grace of God.
Therefore, nobody or any selfish individual fighting to unseat a duly recognised Ijumu PDP chairman, should make any frivolous and criminal statement against Sen. Melaye in the name of Kogi West youths.
We are aware that some youths who have mortgage their conscience long before now are behind this unproductive behaviour.
Kogi West youths will not be an instrument for selfish agenda of some so called leaders to perpetrate any unwarranted verbal attack on Senator Dino Melaye.
It is not enough to go about making spurious statements and unsubstantiated allegations against distinguished Senator Dino over the Ijumu PDP chairmanship, they should rather approach the appropriate party organ to press their demands if any.
We wish to make it very loud and clear that distinguished Sen Dino Melaye is one of our indisputable national leader of this great party, who has contrubuted his quota in no measure to the growth, progress and development of PDP nationally, at state and local govt levels.
We seriously warn that those who are using the name of Kogi West youths to make all sorts of eye-service statement and irritating allegations should desist henceforth, or else, we will not hesitate to mobilize Kogi West youths against them. We can no longer condole the shameful acts of this faceless and fake group using all sorts of names in a bid to survive politically.
It is clear that they are in confusion and lost, so they resulted into political impersonation to blackmail of our leader(s). To that extent, these characters are so gullible and politically demented to claim that
Sen Dino Melaye lost his polling unit and ward during election. This is most dumbest and funniest claim in the recent time that even opposition politicians can stand to defend that Sen Dino Melaye constantly wins his unit and ward with a comfortable margin-lead at every election. Not just that, he is also instrumental to election victory in his Ijumu LGA and beyond via his political structure indisputably.
On the interloping and unsolicited meddling into Ijumu PDP affairs by Mr. Alfred Bello and his group,
it is important to warn them seriously to retrace their steps and stop using Ijumu PDP for their personal political transaction.
For Alfred Bello like his Ijumu counterpart, we understand that they have been collecting money from some aspirants within Ijumu and Kabba to do the hatchet job, we advise them to either return the money collected or retrace their steps or be ready for stiff resistance from the people.
Alfred Bello as a tool for counter-prodution,
he is hell bent on exercising undue interference in Ijumu PDP matter because of his personal and selfish greed to suit the political orchestration of some few characters, who wants to dictate to Ijumu PDP, yet don’t want to be seen as behind the whole issues.
Let it be clear to Alfred Bello and cohorts that nothing will change the name of hon Bode Olorunmaiye as the duly recognised Ijumu PDP chairman, as affirmed by the people and the party nationally.
It could be recalled that hon. Bode Olorunmaiye was among the 21 local govt party chairmen of Kogi State inaugurated on the 29th October, 2021 by the PDP in Abuja. It is also instructive to note that, hon. Bode Olorunmaiye name was duly published by the National Convention Committee of our great party to which he participated in all convention activities and also voted.
For the sake of our loyal and peaceful party members from Ijumu who have since united for the progress of our great party, it will interest you to know that hon. Bode Olorunmaiye attended the meeting held after the convention at Villa-U hotels, Abuja.
The meeting was at the instance of state PDP chairman, Sam Uhuotu, attended by all 21 local govt party chairmen of which Mr. Alfred Bello was in attendance.
Anyone following this development will begin to wonder why the sudden infiltration, dishonourable and destructive attitude of Mr. Alfred Bello and his sponsors over Ijumu PDP chairmanship. It is clear that they have lost it completely!
Worthy of note, two weeks ago, Ijumu PDP under the chairmanship of hon. Bode Olorunmaiye held an enlarged stakeholder’s meeting with local govt executives, ward executives, party leaders and supporters in attendance.
We do not know what Alfred Bello and his co-sponsors from both Ijumu and Kabba intend to achieve aside division, greed and commercialization of our great party, but we can assure them that our teeming party members believed in the leadership of Sen Dino Melaye and Prince Olusola Akanmode, other respected and responsible leaders of our part and we will stand by their choice.
Hon. Bode Olorunmaiye has commenced his tenure on a good note, and will end it on a very successful note irrespective of the sick antics of some political black-marketers within our party.
Signed:
Abdullahi Imam
Eyiwumi Bonire
Bayo Ologun
For; Concerned Kogi West PDP Youths.