Two Peoples Democratic Party candidates in the forthcoming National Assembly elections in Ondo State, Basorun Ifedayo Adedipe, SAN, alias ‘Beacon of Hope’, and Hon (Princess) Kemisola Adeasanya, alias ‘Oseniyan’, have disowned a poster bearing their pictures together with that of the APC predidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and purportedly declaring their support for him.
While Adedipe is flying the PDP flag as the party’s Ondo Central Senatorial District’s candidate, Adesanya, a former member of the State’s House of Assembly is the PDP candidate for the Akure North/South Federal Constituency in the coming House of Representatives election.
Both addressed a press conference on Sunday in Akure the Ondo State capital disowning the posters displaying their pictures with that of Tinubu as false.
They said: “Gentlemen of the press,
We are here this afternoon to further respond to posters pasted within Akure metropolis displaying our pictures, Bashorun Ifedayo Adedipe and Hon Kemi Adesanya with that of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, purportedly designed and pasted by a group of people called Akure Progressive Forum.
“We will like to say with emphasis that this group is unknown to us.
“We have immediately responded through a joint press release which was under reported, hence the need for this press conference.
“We are candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and have no connection whatsoever with the said group.
“Both of us are focused and have a clear direction on our ambitions, political ideologies and that of our party, the PDP.
“Although we welcome support from members of other political parties who believe in our personalities and ability to represent them well at the National Assembly but our belief and support for our great party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON is total, unalloyed and unflinching.
“We hereby wish to further reiterate our commitment to our party and our ambition for a quality representation, for the good people of our constituencies, to influence policies, that will improve the lives of our constituents. We believe there are so many ways to better the lives of our people, than the present situation in the country.
“We hereby urge our supporters and the electorates as a whole to remain resolute and vote for a new narrative represented by the PDP, to rescue Nigeria, come 25th of February and 11th of March, 2023.
“We urge the electorates, to vote for all the candidates presented by the PDP across board, to put an end to the hardship and the abysmal failure of the present APC government.”
