Lagos PDP cautions Jonathan on Obanikoro’s appointment
A faction within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Lagos State chapter loyal to a chieftain of the party, Chief Bode George, has cautioned President Goodluck Jonathan over the appointment of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro as a minister, noting that doing that will not add any value to the party’s chance of winning Lagos.
The faction which is also loyal to the former minister of works, Chief Adeseye Ogunlewe, urged President Jonathan to keep any ministerial appointment for Lagos State pending the outcome of the re-scheduled governorship election, in case Jimi Agbaje loses at the poll.
A member of the faction who pleaded anonymity said the nomination of Obanikoro by President Jonathan has further polarised the PDP in Lagos State, adding that lots of party members jubilated last week when the National Assembly postponed the screening exercise of ministerial nominees till this week, hoping that Obanikoro would not scale through the exercise.
He said lots of party members were unhappy that President Jonathan nominated Obanikoro for a ministerial appointment without taking into consideration the mood of the party leaders and majority of the members in the state.
He explained some of Obanikoro’s actions that allegedly put the PDP in the bad books of Lagosians to include; his reaction to the governorship election he lost to Agbaje, his involvement in the alleged Ekiti State governorship election issue, disrespect to Chief Bode George and Chief Ogunlewe before and after the party’s primaries and his behaviour towards members of the party in Lagos when he was the Minister of State for Defence.
“We are all witnesses to his behaviour when he was the minister of state for defence. He turned himself to a tin-god and nobody can control him within the party, even where it was obvious that what he did sometimes were not what a minister should be found doing,” he said
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