Governor Fayose Explodes:
Presidential Contest A Do-Or-Die
Affair, Advocates Use of Police/Army
To Win Election
An inaugural meeting of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Southwest
was held in Akure on Saturday with
the objective of outlining a strategy
for winning the 2015 elections in the
area, with Ekiti State governor Ayo
Fayose reiterating the party’s old
mantra that the presidential contest
is a “do or die” affair.
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK
JAN 02, 2015
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An inaugural meeting of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Southwest
was held in Akure on Saturday with
the objective of outlining a strategy
for winning the 2015 elections in the
area, with Ekiti State governor Ayo
Fayose reiterating the party’s old
mantra that the presidential contest
is a “do or die” affair.
Ayodele Fayose
The returnee-governor said the party
must be prepared to use its control
of the army and the police, which it
currently controls, to ensure victory
for President Goodluck Jonathan at
next month’s polls.
The meeting was organized by the
PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov.
Olusegun Mimiko, who shared the
high table with Senitor Iyiola
Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi,
Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor
Ayo Fayose and various leaders from
the zone.
Governor Fayose underlined that the
presidential election was critical,
advising that the party should forget
about governorship elections and
concentrate on the presidential
contest. According to him, once
President Jonathan was re-elected,
everything else would fall into place
and the party could declare the
governorship candidates of PDP in
various States as it likes.
Minutes of the meeting obtained by
SaharaReporters shows that some
delegates advocated de-emphasizing
rallies as campaign strategy,
preferring that the PDP should focus
on propaganda aimed at tarnishing
the image of the presidential
candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, General Muhammadu
Buhari. Some of the delegates
wanted to use the media to dent the
image of General Buhari.
In that connection, Senator Omisore
expressed support for the extensive
use of propaganda against Buhari,
joining Governor Fayose in stressing
that the all efforts should be
mobilized to win the Presidency
because the PDP would be nothing
without the presidency.
Mr. Fayose disagreed with the
propaganda strategy, describing it as
a waste of time. Stressing that attack
is the best form of defence, he said
that the PDP in general and the
South-west PDP should be valiant to
face the Tinubus anywhere they are.
He underlined that the PDP cannot
afford to lose its control of the police
and the army, which it will without
Jonathan being the president.
On Fayose’s description of the
presidential election as a “do or die”
affair, Gov. Mimiko, obviously aware
that the outburst could be used
against the PDP, countered that it
should not be a “do or die” but
rather a “do-and-win” affair.
One of the decisions taken by the
meeting was to set up a number of
committees, including Security,
Contacts, Traditional, and INEC.
The committee on Security is saddled
with the responsibility of working
with the police and the army. The
party leaders also further tasked the
students at both the national and
regional levels to monitor various
institutions and polling booths to
make sure that the election goes in
favour of President Jonathan. It was
also stated that a national student
body had submitted a proposal for a
youth conference that will hold in
FUTA this month where the South-
west students would adopt Jonathan
as their presidential candidate.
TEXT OF THE MINUTES OF THE
INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH
WEST
PDP, HELD ON 27TH DECEMBER 2014
The inaugural meeting of the
southwest PDP was held in Akure, at
the Government House of the State
(Ondo State).
The meeting was organized by the
PDP South-West co-ordinator, Gov.
Olusegun Mimiko. On the high table
were Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, Senitor
Iyiola Omisore, Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi,
Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Governor
Ayo Fayose, a governorship aspirant
in Oyo State and various leaders from
the South-West.
At the beginning of the meeting, the
host appealed to all the South-West
PDP members and leaders to be
united so as for them to be able to
gain more votes from the zone. And
people were given opportunity to give
opinion on how they could get more
votes for the presidential election in
2015 and win other positions.
A speaker from Lagos State made a
comment that Senator Muslim
Obanikoro’s son, Ibrahim Obanikoro,
that contested for the position of
council chairman in one of the
LCDA’s in Lagos State, defeated Sen.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his area but
was not given the position. He
mentioned that that they had the key
in winning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu and that Asiwaju only claims
what he cannot do.
And the speaker further said that they
needed the support of the Presidency
to do so many things in Lagos State,
concerning the forth-coming election.
Also, another speaker from Lagos
State emphasized on issue of
disbursement of funds for the
election. He stressed that funds were
always late for disbursement for
elections, so they wanted early
disbursement so that they could
deliver.
While another speaker from another
state said they were happy for the
meeting because it would foster
peace among the southwest PDP
members and that they could move
on easily.
A speaker from Oyo State laid
emphasis on use of the media and
said the party should go more on the
media attack on the opposition party
(APC). He mentioned that effective
use of the media was the weapon
being used by APC. Gov. Mimiko now
stated that they made findings of who
were the owners of some dailies and
that it was discovered that those
media outfits did not belong to
members of the APC, and thus PDP
could equally hijack the media.
A speaker from Osun State that he
had told Gov. Mimiko to help them
tell the President to use his power
and office to quash Ogbeni
Aregbesola before the general
elections, so that PDP could produce
more votes for the President and that
the idea of fighting Gov. Aregbesola
would be by going to the Court of
Appeal which he said could be
influenced to remove Aregbesola. So,
he urged the honourable leaders of
our amiable party to look into the
issue of Osun State.
Discussions now moved on to the
strategy that would be used for
winning the presidential election;
• Delegates present at the meeting
discussed more on campaign that
they should do less of rallies,
instead, they should embark on full
campaign with propaganda that
would tarnish the image of APC
presidential candidate, Gen. Buhari.
And part of what should be used use
to campaign against Gen. Buhari in
Lagos is that he was the one who
stopped the Railway metro project of
Lagos State 30 years ago, and that
instead of Buhari completing the
project, he paid the penalty for
breaching the contract of the railway
metro line project.
• Delegates present laid serious
emphasis on using the media to dent
the image of the presidential
candidate of APC.
Some delegates maintained that the
change that the emperor of
Bourdillon wanted to change Nig.
democracy to totalitarian dictatorship.
Members stated that when PDP had
no State in the South-west, the
President got good votes from the
South-west and now that the party
has two States, it would be able to
win all the other States if the two
States in its kitty are well utilised.
Senator Omisore said in his speech
that propaganda of any form shoule
be utilised and that all efforts should
be mobilized to win the Presidency
as without the presidency the party is
nothing.
In the speech of Mr. Ayo Fayose, he
said propaganda would only waste
time and that attack is the best from
of defence. He maintained that the
party in general and the South-west
PDP needed to be valiant to face the
Tinubus anywhere they are. He
further said we have the control of
police and the army and “I CAN NOT
AFFORD TO LOSE MY CONTROL ON
POLICE AND THE ARMY” and without
Jonathan being the president we will
lose the control. Further, he said the
presidential election is a do or die
affair but Gov. Mimiko quickly
countered that it should not be a do
or die affair but rather a do-and-win
affair.
Governor Fayose later said they
should forget about all governorship
elections and concentrate on the
presidential election, that once
President Jonathan returns, we could
be declaring the governorship
candidates of PDP in various States
as they like, meaning that the
Presidential election is very
paramount.
As the meeting progressed, leaders
at the meeting put Oyo State in focus
and maintained that PDP could get
more votes for the president there by
begging both Chief Alao Akala and
Chief Rasheed Ladoja to align their
parties with the PDP since they have
no presidential aspirant and there is
every need to throw out Ajimobi,
Amosun with using militant thugs
loyal to PDP.
Mr. Kolapo Ogunjobi representing
Otunba Gbenga Daniel said they PDP
on ground in Ijebu side of Ogun State
and they were grassrooters and that
they could deliver with good
resources.
Sen. Musilu Obanikoro in his own
speech said 3 days after he lost the
PDP primary election, that Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to him in
private which he said was quite
unusual of him. He said Tinubu
asked him how much he had spent
and that he was ready to give him 2
billion Naira and a senatorial seat
from APC in Lagos State. He said he
refused the offer and stressed that
they could just imagine how smart
and clever Asiwaju is. He further
stated that Cardinal James
Odunmbaku (Baba Eto) was almost
at the concluding part of decamping
to PDP and that even he had even
concluded with the presidency in Aso
Rock before Asiwaju hijacked him
back with the position of Director-
General of Campaign of Mr.
Akinwunmi Ambode. He said they
could see that Tinubu is the smart
type. Senator Obanikoro further said
he was the only person that could
match Bola Ahmed Tinubu because
he said he knew his tactics. He
further emphasized that with cash in
his hand, Tinubu is nobody.
While Governor Fayose intervened by
saying that there was nothing special
in Lagos and that he normally visited
markets in Lagos every weekend and
before the people in the market
would recognize him, they would
have said so many things in his
presence that they won’t know.
Govenor Fayose further said he was
coming to Lagos to teach people the
market approach to sensitizing the
people on the need to support PDP
and dump APC.
After all this, the communiqué
prepared sequel to which the press
was allowed entry into the place for a
brief coverage before they were
dispersed again. At the end, they set
up various committees on such areas
as:
• SECURITY
• TRADITIONAL
• CONTACTS
• INEC etc.
Committee on contacts will meet
important personalities to canvass
them, they mention people like Jimoh
Ibrahim in Ondo, the Ogun people
mentioned Sen. Anthony Adefuye as
part of the personalities to be visited,
and many other personalities.
Committee on INEC would monitor
various INEC commissioners in
various south-west states and try as
much as possible to lure them with
money to compromise in favour of
our great party.
Committee on traditional rulers would
meet up all Obas in the southwest
for consultation on the presidential
election and use financial
gratification to lure them as many of
them really need stomach
infrastructure, according to Governor
Fayose. Governor Mimiko maintained
that many of those Obas are actually
hungry and with good amount of
money they could get them to
support PDP
Committee on security is saddled
with the responsibility to work with
the police and the army. Leaders of
the party further tasked the students
at both the National (NANS) and
southwest level, state level to
monitor various institutions, polling
booths and make sure that the
election would go in favour of
Jonathan. It was also observed that
the National body of student (NANS)
submitted a proposal for a youth
conference that will hold in FUTA in
January where the South-west
students would adopt Jonathan as
their presidential candidate.
Some leaders also talked about
APC’s strategy of deploying 10
persons per polling booth and that
they were aware of it and stated that
all leaders should task themselves to
use councilors in all their various
booths.
Lastly, the South-west coordinator
said the next meeting that would hold
in Ibadan which would involve fund-
raising for the presidential election
from stakeholders of the PDP south-
west and the meeting would be used
to shake Oyo once again urging that
the Governorship aspirant of PDP to
be prepared.
The meeting ended with closing
prayer from a delegate from Ondo
State.
SOURCE:
SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK
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