The Chairman, Ondo PDP Aspirants Forum and a contestant for the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Adekanmbi, told journalists in Abuja that the party should be allowed to conduct its primaries without interference if it must record success in the forthcoming elections.
Speaking on behalf of the forum, Adekanmbi said some senior party officials were going against the dictates of the party's constitution and stressed that the PDP will lose in 2015 if the national body fails to intervene adequately.
He said, "We want the public to be informed of the impending lose of the PDP in Ondo. When the result will be out on February 15, 2015 showing the lose of the PDP in Ondo, nobody should be surprised.
"The people of Ondo are ready to take their destiny in their hands for you cannot handpick and impose on us. This is to sensitise Nigerians because their is going to be protest vote against the PDP in 2015 elections."
Adekanmbi also alleged that the Ondo state governor's membership with the PDP was not genuine as he was not registered in the party according to the PDP's constitution.
He said, "Governor Olusegun Mimiko joined the party on October 2, 2014 and that was when the PDP congress was about 29 days away. Under the party's constitution, Chapter 2, Section 8, subsection 1 to 11, a person that joins PDP within 30 days before congress cannot partake in the congress.
"This is because the party's register would have been closed a month before congress. The implication is that everybody who came to the party with Mimiko are not members of the PDP including the governor because they have not been registered according to our constitution."
He explained that a panel set by the party's national body disqualified original members of the Ondo PDP from contesting political positions after the politicians had spent huge sums campaigning.
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