Makinde’s stand on PDP crisis not for selfish reasons but for fairness-Ayorinde SAN clarifies

The gubernatorial candidate for the Social Democratic party (SDP) in 2019, a legal luminary, Chief Bolaji Ayorinde SAN has said that governor makinde’s agitation in PDP crisis not for selfish reason but asking for fairness, equity justice among the geo-political zones in Nigeria.

The legal luminary stated this while addressing Journalists on the crisis in People’s Democratic party on the sharing of leadership positions in the party.

Chief Ayorinde explained the reason of the aggrieved G5 governor’s as seeking for proper structure of the party inoder for all the component part of the country to have a sense of belonging.

He added that the agitation of the G5 governor’s is not about fighting for their personal benefit or gain but they are asking for situation whereby the party would have a strong footing and all the members will have a sense of belonging.

When he was quizzed on the chances of governor makinde at the forthcoming 2023 general elections in the state, he noted that governor makinde’s performance would speak for him from his first term good work.

Chief Ayorinde stated that “First of all you have to appreciate the position of the G5, personally I do not think they are agitating for themselves, you see they are in a political party where they are called into question the current structure of the party.

“It is not governor makinde who want to be chairman of PDP, it is not Ortom or Governor Wike not at all.

“The point they make is that if PDP cannot be properly structured as a party, if they win election how will they structure Nigeria? So that all the component part of this country will have a sense of belonging.

“And the morning shows the afternoon not to talk of the night that is their agitations.

“I hope people can see that it is not about their personal benefit or gain from whatever is happening in the party but they want a situation whereby they are able their party on a strong footing so that Nigerians particularly the party members from the south can have a sense of belonging.

“As to the chances of the governor himself, he will be judged by his own performance, so I don’t see the spelling of doom, there is no doom.

“And if you look at character of the governor, he doesn’t appear like he is a desperate person, he has won election in the past, he has lost, and when he has won, he had stage the course, he had set out his objectives and heist doing is best and the result are very clear.

“You see the fact that he is involve in agitation,for a best structure for his party, it does not mean that he himself or his party in the state may not do well they are different elections and gone are the days if bad wagon effect those days are gone people would vote on the presidential election day as they wish.

“People would vote for governor as they wish, so I don’t that issues as a problem.

“I think for us here, we must not see politics as end, one thing that is beginning to wane among the Yoruba’s is education,that was our pride, education.

“When you are well educated the sky is the limit as they say, that is when you can produce intellectuals who can in turn lift your economy, lift your science, lift your Arts ensure that you have a decent society, so even going to election what is our stand on education, it is education that allow you and I to have intelligent conversation.

“So going forward 2023 let us continue to educate ourselves, when we are very educated we will make the right choice”, he said.