Segun Sowunmi, a former Ogun State governorship aspirant, is confident of victory in the event of a head-to-beat battle with former Senate President Bukola Saraki for the office of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Gatekeepers News reports that while speaking with Channels Television on Wednesday, Sowunmi said “I’ll beat him (Saraki). I’ll ask him what he did in 2014/2015, when they destabilized the party. I’ll beat him, I’m sure of that.”
Sowunmi also argued that the emergence of Saraki would be unfair.
According to his argument, the victory of Saraki, a Kwara State native, would amount to another party chairman from the North Central geopolitical zone, which he believed was unfair to the South-West region.
Of the 15 chairmen to date, there have been six from the North Central region: Lar, Gemade, Ogbeh, Ali, Baraje, and Ayu.
“If North Central thinks that it is their inalienable right to be chairman all the time, then those of us in the South-West can tell them, ‘No, we don’t agree,’” he said.
“Some of us have put in a lot more than you guys have put in, and we want the party chairman to be in the South-West, and if young people want me to be, then we’ll meet ourselves in the field.”
Sowunmi argued that his position remains that stability is more important than anything else.
“When you have the situation that we have on hand now, we must be very measured, we must be very careful, and we must not run into that consistent argument of thinking that our issue is removing the person in charge,” he said.
“We had the same conversation with Ali Modu Sherriff, then we ran into Makarfi, then we ran into Secondus, then we ran into Ayu. Now, we’re with Damagun. We cannot be a political party that keeps saying all the time that nobody is good enough to lead us.”
