The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Tola Alabere, has called for unity in the party ahead of the upcoming governorship election in the state.
Alabare advised the media aides of the PDP governorship aspirants against attacking rival aspirants.
Ahead of the November 16, 2024 governorship election, the PDP has fixed April 25 for its primary to choose its governorship candidate among the seven aspirants.
The Ondo PDP Chairman spoke on Wednesday at a one-day seminar for media aides of PDP governorship aspirants in Ondo State, held in Akure.
He warned the media aides of the governorship aspirants against pulling down other aspirants while promoting their principals, in the media, particularly on social media, saying this might cause disaffection between the winner of the primary and other aspirants in the main election.
“The roles all of you are playing today are not geared towards bringing the aspirants together. What you write on social media platforms should be geared towards strengthening the party. If aspirant A should wins the primary, he will need the support and cooperation of other aspirants.
“The moment you come in between your principal and other aspirants, will they be ready to support him when he wins the primary? So, you have a major role to play in uniting the party.”
According to Alabere, the PDP needed to be united because in the past lack of unity caused the party to lose elections.
He said, “The main reason for this programme is to tell you that the PDP is the only party in Ondo State. I must tell you that I don’t see PDP as an opposition party in the state because we’re supposed to be in government. It is the PDP itself that usually worked against the party when it comes to elections. We will divide ourselves after the primary and do other sorts of things.
“In 2019, I was the senatorial chairman for South, and Dr Eddy Olafeso can testify to the fact that after the primary, members of the party in the South worked together because there was unity. We made sure that all the differences amongst the aspirants were resolved.
“Even when the APC was governing the state in 2019, after the election, out of four national assembly positions, we got three. We got that results because there was unity.”
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