Bode George Hints At Jimi Agbaje’s Candidature And Says Jonathan Never Endorsed Obanikoro,

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Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has given an indication that businessman, Jimi Agbaje may emerge as standard bearer of the party in Lagos State.

In an interview with newsmen, he said the type of individual that the party will settle for is “a man with sound pedigree, someone you can trace his lineage, and with sound education, not Toronto or Chicago; a man who has shown semblance of top management level capability, who is respectable, responsible and acceptable and manageable; and also marketable to all the three tiers of existence – top executives, the medium level and low-level people.”

On President Goodluck Jonathan’s advice that the PDP leadership should choose a candidate that will be acceptable to the public, he said: “I think it was Senator Bucknor-Akerele who asked the same pertinent question. That ‘Mr President, I am told that you have a preferred candidate.’ President Jonathan said, ‘no, I don’t have any preferred candidate. But everywhere I went, I heard one name, to my left, right, centre and even back.’

According to him, the president also said that some of his friends outside were mentioning the same name.

George recalled that the president said he didn’t have any preferred candidate, but if there was one name that was reverberating all over the place, including the other side, that kind of person would also be his own preferred candidate.

Continuing he said, “Because it cost a lot of money to get the forms, the president advised the aspirants to go into serious retrospection and do a deep-seated thinking not to waste their money. 

He said they should try and work together. For me, that was purely advisory.

“The voice of your Papa, when he is advising you, must not be thrown into the dustbin. Listen to the voice of your leader and elders. I told many of them, this game is not just about us alone doing election; it has a link all the way; even Saturday ward congresses, will have an effect on the national election.

“So, the first step is very important and you watch your leader like we say in politics. The leaders are also having meetings with the aspirants, those that we can convince. Let’s reduce the number because N12 million is a big money and is non-refundable. President Jonathan said he would still come back and see how best we are able to manage the reduction of the aspirants.”

Reacting to speculations that he is backing Mr. Jimi Agbaje and that Senator Musiliu Obanikoro said he has the support of the president, George went proverbial, saying

 “There is no amount of clothing that a young person can have, he will never have as many rags as an old man. When a child goes to the bush to cut the tree, it is the old man that will know where it will fall.

“As I said, this is the season of rumours; they can flex muscles. That Obanikoro resigned because the president endorsed him, is the greatest lie.

“The president, who came and made the statement I told you, is still very much alive. Are you saying that it is the president that said the Minister of State for Education, Nysome Wike should resign because he has endorsed him, who signed the papers? Was it the president that signed the paper?

“If you have any blemish in your closet, just ease yourself out quietly. Nobody will come and cover up here; we will expose all of them to the media. The kind of person we want to put forward is someone clean because I remember that in 2007, some of these guys ran away from the Election Petition Tribunal; they couldn’t attend the Tribunal because of the tons of blemish they had in their closets.

“President Jonathan didn’t endorse anybody. If you watch him that day when he was giving a valedictory speech at the Federal Executive Council meeting, he said, ‘Let me advise those who want to run, think deeply, look at it dispassionately, you still have room between now and Monday to submit.’ So if he is endorsing anybody, he would say, ‘well done my ministers, you have done well, go.’ So, who is lying now?”

Commenting on the clamour for a Christian governor in Lagos State in 2015, the PDP chieftain agreed that: “Ideally, it should never be a problem because hardly would you find a family in Lagos that either does not belong to the Christian, the Muslim or even the traditional religion.

“For 16 years, we have had a Muslim sect in governance, I don’t know where it came from, but like I said, vox populi. You must take cognance in your tactical table of the arrangement because they would vote: the Pentecostal, the Catholic, tons and tons of them. If they are demanding for it, whatever it takes, you follow the wakes; don’t swim against the tide because we didn’t start it.

“The Emperor in Bourdillion (Tinubu) too quickly anointed somebody.

 Akin Ambode’s father was a Cherubim and Seraphim member. It is just like what the number one citizen in the land was advising when he came to Lagos. He said anywhere he goes, this is the name he is hearing and if you remain deaf to it, you remain deaf to it to your detriment.

“So, if they said that is what they want, everybody will comply. Though it is not like a Berlin Wall, it is a strong parameter in the equation, and we must follow it if we want to win the minds of the people.”

Bode George also gave reasons why his party is desperate to win Lagos.

He averred that the people of Lagos were in need of a new government, as they had been, for 16 years, on a bridge that had led to nowhere.

“It is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, you can’t go forward, and you can’t jump off. Look at the whole belt of Lekki, the amount of money you pay on toll.”

According to him, “Governance is about easing the pressure on the people but they have turned it into inflicting more pains on the people. People are tired and they need a change”.- Dailypost.

*Those wolves who always show up on any post on Obanikoro are welcome to defend him here again but if anyone cusses me out,i will delete it.

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