By Folu Adegoke

LAGOS—Visioners for New Lagos, VNL, a Lagos based political group has faulted two of the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Chief Bode George and Senator Adesegun Ogunlewe, for betraying the ideals of genuine democracy as espoused by the party.

Noting what they claimed as the duo’s commitment to imposing one of the aspirants in the recent governorship primaries, the group said that the two have by their actions shown themselves to be more dictatorial than the political leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC whom they had consistently criticised as dictators.

The leader of the group, Mr. Bambo Akin-Johnson, in a press statement yesterday particularly flayed what he described as the hostility of the two political leaders to the governorship aspiration of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro who the group alleged has contributed more to the party than the two of them.

Noting that the two men had consistently failed to win for the party or fund the party, the Visioners for New Lagos said:

“Unfortunately for them, it is only Obanikoro, who has funded his son twice to run for elections, one of which has put the PDP in good stead in the state. The last local government election which his son, Babajide was denied was an eye-opener for the party and the people of the state.

“The result of the election through its clinical instrumentation by Obanikoro showed that the ruling party was vulnerable after all. In all of these, he invested his personal resources because it was at a time he held no position in the party. Yet, all that these people had done was run him down.

“To show how much they hated him, they could not even fight for what was obviously theirs because it was Obanikoro’s. While George addressed many news conferences over the council election in the state, he deliberately brushed aside the fact that Babajide won a critical local government that houses the residences of some of the APC leaders including Bola Tinubu himself,” he said.

“It is an irony to assume that the only time there was peace in Lagos PDP was when George was incarcerated. Indeed, there has never been peace in the PDP in Lagos despite his incarceration. As a prisoner, he determined all that went on in the party ahead of the 2011 elections while Ogunlewe and others formed a group to fight him but to no avail.

“That these two men now come together all in the name of fighting a common enemy in the person of Obanikoro is sad, worrisome and curious. Yet, they have their own kids that they are praying God to lift and prosper while running down someone else’s kid, no way. God is not man; he will serve them in their own dish.”