Dimeji Bankole Kicked Out Of Ogun Governorship Race 24hrs To Primary

  Chief Bayo Dayo, Chairman of. the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ogun State has declared that the former Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives,  Dimeji Bankole is not among the aspirants of the party that will contest the governorship election primaries  in
the State today.

He disclosed that the party was not aware of the former Speaker’s aspiration to vie for the exalted seat.
The Peoples Democratic Party has fixed Monday for its governorship primary across the State.

The Party said Bankole was not one of its eleven aspirants that will be contesting in tomorrow’s primary election. The party added that the former Speaker did not buy the expression of intent form from the State secretariat in Abeokuta,
which would have formally announced him as an aspirant in the contest.

The State Party Chairman of the PDP, Chief Bayo Dayo disclosed this Sunday while addressing journalists at the party secretariat in Abeokuta. He alleged that Bankole had since 2011 after losing his re-election bid into the House of Representatives, distanced himself from the party in the State.

He said he will never be a party to the
alleged plan to pick the former Speaker as the consensus governorship candidate of
the PDP in the State.

According to him, “I’m still saying that I am not aware that Dimeji Bankole is contesting the governorship in Ogun State. The money we are using to run this party is enormous. Some people have been doing that for years. Somebody cannot just say because
he has been to Harvard, Cambridge or Oxford, he is coming to lead us overnight. It’s not going to happen.

” So, if you are contesting, you must come to the State secretariat and obtain an expression of interest form. Those funds that are given to us by the various aspirants are the forms we are using for all these primaries, congresses we are doing. We do not have special funds for all these
things. It is the money contributed by all these aspirants that we are using. The arrangement about Dimeji Bankole, I do not know anything about it,” Dayo maintained.

The Chairman revealed that, unlike other governorship aspirants of the party in the State, Bankole had failed to show seriousness about his aspiration to become the party’s standard bearer. He said that Bankole had only been looking
for a “short cut” to become the PDP
governorship candidate, instead of going through due process.