Kogi PDP gov primary: Let’s put aside our differences, Wada charges co-contestants

AS political parties are getting set for the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi State, the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Captain Idris Wada (retd), has urged party members to put aside their differences, in order to be able to forge a common front to achieve victory in the December 3 governorship election.
Captain Wada, who addressed newsmen after he was confirmed by the national secretariat of the party as the party’s candidate for Kogi State, also said his candidature, alongside his deputy, Mr Yomi Awoniyi, son of the late elder statesman, Chief S.B. Awoniyi, should be seen as an act of God.
“I give thanks to the Almighty God who made it possible for me to be elected as the party’s candidate. This is not the time to fight to destroy our dear party.
“This is a time for reconciliation. There is no victor, no vanquished. Power is given by the Almighty God to whom he wishes at every point in time. I am, therefore, appealing to all my co-contestants to join hands with me and my deputy, in order for us to triumph in the December 3 election,” he said.
According to him, it would serve no purpose for members of the same party to continue throwing dirty slings at each other, at a time all that was needed was genuine reconciliation.
Captain Wada assured of his preparedness to promptly meet with all aggrieved members, to assuage their frayed nerves.
In another development, the state chairman of the PDP, Hassan Salau, has called on all members of the party to unite, in order to move the party forward.
Salau, who spoke at the same forum with journalists, said a reconciliation committee was being put in place to resolve the crisis within the party.
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