Ologbondiyan also expressed concern over PDP’s loss in Ondo, saying successive off-season elections may suffer the same fate
By Kehinde Okeowo
Kola Ologbondiyan, a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) has urged his party’s National Chairman, Umar Damagum to explain why he met with President Bola Tinubu before Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Ondo State.
Speaking via a statement he personally signed, the former main opposition party’s spokesperson noted that there are reports alleging that Damagum had a secret meeting with the president.
The PDP chieftain went on to plead with the party’s leaders to rescue it from the “stranglehold of Damagum and his backers if the party must be revitalised to perform optimally as an opposition political party.”
He said: “How can the head of the leading opposition party be accused of ‘nicodemusly’ meeting with the President of the ruling government, and he would have no response to provide?”
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Ologbondiyan further expressed concern over PDP’s loss in Saturday’s Ondo State governorship election, stressing that successive off-season elections in Anambra, Ekiti and Osun may suffer the fate of Kogi, Imo and Ondo States if the substantive National Chairman is not removed.
“It is reprehensible that the Acting National Chairman is supervising the dishevelling of the party.
“Amb. Damagun has the least of interest in working for the success of the party in any election,” he added..