Jonathan’s visit will end crisis -Ondo PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State has said the campaign visit of President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday will end the crisis that has rocked the party in the last four months.

It also said over 100,000 people were expected at the Jonathan rally which would hold at the Democracy Park in Akure.

Publicity Secretary of the party, Banji Okunomo, said in Akure on Monday that the rally would be the best held so far by the party going by the determination of the people of the state to give President Jonathan a rousing welcome.

He said, “The visit of President Jonathan to the sunshine state will complement his victory at the poll and as well serve as an antidote to the crisis rocking the party in the state.”

Okunomo said President Jonathan had recorded unprecedented achievements in all sectors of the country since he assumed office, particularly in the area of road network, human empowerment, agricultural, industrial and educational development.

He however challenged the APC presidential candidate Gen. Mohammadu Buhari to explain to the people of Ondo State why his government unlawfully detained the first civilian governor of the state, late Chief Adekunle Ajasin and other Yoruba celebrated leaders for offences they never committed.

He said Buhari, during his regime as a military leader, deliberatly imprisoned former Vice President Alex Ekwueme, former governors, Chief Bisi Onabanjo, Chief Bola Ige, Chief Ambrose Alli, Chief Adekunle Ajasin and other Yoruba political icons even after the panel of enquiry instituted by his government to investigate them had exonerated them.

“Buhari will lose the battle. He will lose in Ondo State because Ondo State people are angry with him. They have not forgiven him for unlawfully detaining the first civilian governor of the state, Chief Adekunle Ajasin.

“The people expected him to apologize when he came for his rally last week but Buhari deliberately refused to do so. On the issue of his certificate, you will find out that there is disparity in the names he bears.

“For instance, he bears Mohammadu Buhari in the name he wrote in his INEC form and bears Mohammed Buhari in the controversial certificate,” he stressed.