By Remi Adefulu
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State got messier yesterday as a faction of the party has emerged.
This was even as the state chairman, Mr. Moshood Salvador,described the development as an “act of indiscipline.”
Addressing newsmen, chairman of the new faction, Chief Segun Adewale, described himself as the authentic chairman of Lagos PDP.
He hinged this on the fact that his group emerged after due process from the wardlevel to state level.
“I, Otunba Segun Adewale, is the authentic chairman of the state executive committee of PDP in Lagos State
“I emerged as chairman from the ward, local and state congresses conducted in Lagos on April 30, May 5 and May 10, 2016 respectively.
“The committee of Mr. Moshood Salvador, Gani Taofiq and others is a fictitious creation of Chief Olabode George and, it has no recognition from any organ of PDP,” he declared yesterday.
Continuing, Adewale, who was the party’s senatorial candidate for Lagos West in the last general election, blamed George for being a cog in the wheel of progress of the party in the last 16 years.
He further alleged that the PDP leader’s personal interest had been detrimental to the party, just as he promised to improve the fortunes of the party ahead of 2019.
“This 2016/2020 executive committee under my leadership is committed to total victory in Lagos come 2019, and we are determined to rid ourselves of the old PDP cabal that led the party astray for 16 years,” he said.
Salvador, however, dismissed Adewale’s claim of being “authentic chairman,” saying the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wrote a letter to him this week in his capacity as chairman of the party.
The politician, who said he was enemy to nobody, said he was ready to reconcile all interests in the party.