The ratification of Dr Olu Agunleye by National Executive Council (NEC) of social Democratic Party (SDP) has elated the Adamawa State chapter of the party.
In a statement signed by the State organizing Secretary in Yola, Hon Aziz jibrillah said they are congratulating Olu for the endorsement because he has been tested and fund trusted with a good management of party affairs.
Immediately after the endorsement Agunloye in his acceptance speech said SDP “ll give Nigerians hope in 2023 once again as the citizens are despair of many maladministration of all sorts.
The jubilation of the new face of the party made Oni to stormed NEC meeting, promises massive votes in Ekiti guber poll
Olu who has been an acting Chairman was ratified as the substantive chairman of the party.
In a motion by the Rivers state chairman, Saul Saro and supported by the chairman Akwa Ibom state, Willington Odion, at the National Executive Committee meeting, the party through voice vote endorsed Agunloye as the national chairman of the party.
The new national chairman thanked all the organs of the party for the confidence reposed in him and other members of the national working committee who had been working to reposition the party.
While lamenting the systems failure in the country, Agunloye stated that the SDP offered hope for Nigerians and would continue to do so as Nigerians would no longer be faced with only two alternatives which was like a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea.
“I stand here to bring you hope. The SDP family brings Nigerians hope. It is not the first time that this kind of hope will come we saw this happen almost 30 years ago and we believe that when it is 30 years we will repeat what we did in 1993.
“We bring hope to Nigerians at this particular time when the country and the people in the country and the structures of the country are beginning to look hopeless. We hear and see what they call systems failure -total electricity collapse.
“But, of course, we know that these are just symptoms of the major collapse in the architectural structure of Nigeria both socially and economically. But we stand before you today to bring hope, we bring assurance because we are providing Nigerians the alternative platform.
“We no longer agree with the remainder of Nigeria that we have to select between two devils, we no longer agree with the rest of Nigerians that we have to make a choice between the deep blue sea and the devil and we believe that in this particular case, SDP is offering you the flagship that will rescue Nigeria.
“The people who are here are just representatives of those people who are working, they are going to be called national executive committee but the representatives of the entire family, new generation that is offering alternative to Nigeria and a rescue for Nigeria
“We are working towards the situation that by this time next year, we would have produced the president of Nigeria.”
He paid tributes to all the party’s presidential aspirants, especially, Dr (Mrs) Dorothy Nuhu, Prof Femi Olufunmilade, Dr Kabiru Daudu and Prince Adewole Adebayo.
He expressed the hope that the party’s candidate in Ekiti state, Chief Segun Oni would emerge successful in the June 18 governorship election.
In a secretarial report, Malam Shehu Gabam said the party had been involved in the meetings with different groups with a view to expanding the frontiers of the party.
He also told the party about the exit of some of the former chieftains who left for various reasons, namely, former chairman, Prof Tunde Adeniran, the former National Organising Committee, Hon Emeka Atuma and a party chieftain Rufai Alkali who told the party that he was going back to the classroom
Addressing the NEC Chief Oni who stormed the session with the Director General of his Campaign Organization, Ambassador Dare Bejide.
He assured that the party would bring hope to the people of the state who were anxiously waiting for the election day to turn out to vote massively for SDP in an election they had brandied as their last of having good governance on the state
According to him, ” Ekiti People are waiting for the SDP, the expectations are very high, the people will vote for the Party massively, they know what they wanted, they are not fools , good governce for the entire country will start from Ekiti.”
In their remarks, the four presidential aspirants said that they decided to run on the platform of the Party because of its policies and ideologies of transparency and accountability which other parties with big names lacked over the years.
