Gbajabiamila boosts that he is battle ready to face the Tinubu factor in the forthcoming election. Excerpts:
BEFORE the real election, you are going to face the party primaries, how do you hope to scale the huddle before you now face the Tinubu factor at the general poll?
Gbajabiamila
We can’t to sit down here andjust be asking for change. Tinubu did not get there because it was given to him, he got there through a process and, therefore, somebody must unseat that process. I pray that my wish is blessed by God, I will go through the party primaries, I am ready for the party primaries because I have done it before. I believe that with all the efforts that I have put in, I would be successful, I don’t have any worry about that. I know that God would make it happen.
And then when it comes to the election, I believe that the people’s voice would speak and when the people’s voice speaks, there is nothing that can change it. So it is not a matter of who I am competing with or the resources of the person I am competing with, it is the ability to sell my product, it is the ability to win the election that is the most important thing. I believe that with what we have on ground, with what we are doing, we would win the heart of the people and we are not capturing Lagos, we are winning Lagos.
The entry of Jimmy Agbaje is alleged to have triggered fresh crisis in Lagos PDP as it is claimed he is not a member of the party.
He is a member of PDP.
But he was said to have come in lately.
There are procedures for that, once the procedures are followed, then he is a member, what are we talking about? Let’s understand something. We have always been used to military way of life and we need to shed that, that is our problem. Our problem is that we don’t understand what democracy is all about and that is why you prefer that somebody be brought and dumped on us and they say that is our candidate and everybody queues behind and go and vote, okay. It is not like that in PDP and that is why for any organisation that leaves things to happen, there would be crisis. Politics itself is about crisis and how it is managed is what gives the result.
When election comes, people have interests and interests are going to be different and everybody is going to be working towards his own objective and everybody is going to be struggling to get his own objective realised. That is what the other parties don’t do, they went for the oracle and there is no vibrancy in it.
Some people will remain in one position for six terms not because they want to remain there. They are there because they don’t want to foul the oracle. They cannot aspire, they are not aspiring, they are just waiting to be called to serve. That is not democracy. Democracy is from the grassroots, from your ward, you begin to aspire that one day, I am going to aspire to be president of Nigeria and I am going to work through the system to get to become the president of Nigeria. That is democracy and that is what we must practise. We cannot continue to practise this modified democracy, modified primaries, that is what I like about PDP.
Well, concerning what you said that somebody is coming in, he can come if he can meet the objective; let him come along. If he is able to convince everybody to win, let him win. It is not by holding one Baba’s leg before you become the candidate of the party. So in the other party, they are going to have their crisis this time around because people want to contest and they are going to deal with their own crisis.
We have mastered our crisis, that is the difference. We have gone through it many times so we know the answer to it. We have the answer to our crisis. The last crisis that happened was as a result of leadership tussle.
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