 People's Democratic Party aspirants in the upcoming equity state governorship elections cry foul and reject the party's ward Congress. And Nigerians are feeling very sorry for choosing President Muhammad Abahari as their leader in 2015 says Governor Sammel Otam of Benare State. This is Plus Politics. I am Mary Anna Kong. The People's Democratic Party PDP aspirants in the 2022 equity state governorship election have rejected Saturday's ward Congress to elect three ad hoc delegates in each of the 177 wards in the state. They said the process was hijacked. The aggrieved aspirants are a former governor of the state, Chief Shagoni, a former deputy governor of the state, Professor Kolakbo Ulusola, Senator Piodun Ulujimi, a former PDP national treasurer, Wale Arabisala, and former senatorial aspirants Latif Adjijola. Now they accused the Congress committee appointed by the party's national working committee. There was a heavy deployment of security personnel in the area to prevent the breakdown of law and order. What's running us to discuss this is Ulusola and Lekahi's an aspirant in the upcoming equity governorship election. Thank you so much Mr Lekahi for joining us. Thank you. So walk us through exactly what happened over the weekend last week. We saw a lot of agitations before we go to what Senator Ulujimi said to the press. I want to watch you to give us an eyewitness report of what you saw in your ward or in your local government area. Yeah thank you very much. On the 5th of January 2022 we... Mr Lekahi can you hear me? Well I think we lost that connection. We're quickly going to take a look at what the Senator Ulujimi had to say at the end of that Congress last week Saturday and when we return we will have our guests back on the line. Stay with us. This is a big performance of the Congress and this was how it was exactly on March 7 2020 and that is what we have been fighting up until now and it has repeated itself. Everything hijacked, no everybody compromised, the people who came compromised and it's like somebody said a charade. And I begin to wonder what kind of exercise is this and I think the National should take a look at the activities of the people that were sent to come and conduct this world congress. It's quite unfortunate but this is no congress and it's not acceptable. Apologies we lost our guest but he's back Mr Lekahi we just heard you say that this was no congress meaning that whatever activity or whatever process took place was null and void and why do you think so? Yes thank you. The entire exercise was totally against the natural guideline issued by our party. The officers that were nominated from the National Equalities were expected to go to the Bureau's little government they were assigned to but unfortunately a group of them ended up writing names just in a day-to-day one or two years in a day-to-day. Why keeping our people waiting in the Bureau's work in the Bureau's little government? We were fortunate in the little government to get the officers to go with us and even at that when the officers went around the world they refused to collect the results even at the local government office in Ekerre and they insisted on going to adult to do that. Then I'm going to call so-called this was the agreed venue they decided to shift to NTS event or owned by Governor Fioshe and that is quite unfortunate and that is against the guidelines we said by our party for the for the election of 300 delegates. So for me- So Mr. Laka you're saying that you're alleging that the people who the party at the national level sent had been one way or the other compromised by the former governor of Eketi State to Governor Fioshe, is this what you're alleging? No, not Governor Fioshe, I beg your pardon. Well I did not go to Governor Fioshe, but they were aborted to the event hall center. Rather than collecting the results at the local government office this was the agreed venue. We think all of them going to write results. Results that they never went for. Results that were not committed on the streets. They were just comprised somewhere. They all went to the NTS event center to commit illegal means and that is not acceptable. Now how do you know that these results were illegal? How many local governments or wards were you able to get information from saying that maybe these party officials did not show up? How many? I can particularly tell you that apart from the local government, the reports from all the other departments show that no congressional side in the various wards in the other specific local government. Interesting. Let me also say this. Apart from the fact that the electoral officer did not visit the various wards in the various day commitments, the composition of the world congress electoral committee was especially to include the special encephalance in shifu domi manual as the shea man. That that position is the delegated authority. That means he had been delegated by the national working committee of our party to oversee the congress. But unfortunately with that approval from the national working committee we also delegated somebody else again. So that is the case now because we've seen protests back to back. A group of people are asking that that particular congress be cancelled because it was botched according to them. What is the national saying? Have you spoken to have your grievances been addressed by the national on this issue? But before you answer that, in that video clip that we just played, Senes Olujimi was making reference to something that has happened before. In fact, she said that this has happened before and it's happening again and that they're standing and all the people that were with her are standing against it. What did she mean by this happening again? What? I wouldn't want to do that because that was that happened in March 2020, right? I believe we are currently addressing the issue of the three ad hoc delegate congress. That was that was to be seen to have been held on the 15th of January. I want to say that we applaud our colleagues that they are here and I believe the party will be here and do justice to this matter. Now, I want to talk about the PDP here. The PDP is the major opposition to the sitting party, the ruling party, the Congress and if the PDP is saying that its hopes is to be able to rescue the people of Nigeria, rebuild the country, I'm wondering, is this the way to go? How do you get internal democracy or how do you get democracy for Nigeria if your internal democracy allegedly is botched? Let me tell you this. The foreign leadership of the democratic party is made up of men and women of integrity and I want to say this, and I want to say that PDP is very much out of this country and to rescue the nation from this answer as soon as there are progressive congress parties that are able to raise the entire support of this country. However, those who are saying, who are expected to follow the rules and regulations of the period of identity by the leadership of national working committees, compromise regulations, I would be surprised that the two people, the two most prominent people, were members of the former NWC that are be able to certify. So, and I believe the new leadership we take to look at this and do the next thing. The foreign chairman of the PDP democratic party is the man of integrity, he is our leader, he has his things, he has no wonder, he gives us a lot of attention and that we follow and we have been very much assured that all the wrongs will be corrected. But where is this integrity that you're making reference to you're saying? I mean, of course, you will have to sing the praises of your political party, but if you're talking about the new national working committee, the leadership of the party, you're talking about Mr. IU and all the people that work with him, why is that integrity not reflected in something as little as a kitty state, it's just one state having its congress and then there are people who are delegated by the party who should also be exemplary in showing that same integrity you're making reference to, but we're unable to see that in a mini congress that was held in a state. Where is the integrity that you're speaking of? No, no, no, let me, if I can hear you clearly, right, let me, let me tell you this that nine of the electoral officials that were sent did not compromise. They wrote a desperate report rejecting the report of the compromised officers and these were also presented to the people. That shows that it doesn't like to be done when you have to do that, you always do that. So we want to assure you that if you do that in the midst of everything we have, we will not act that way, because it's a new leadership that is on the mission to rescue the nation. So we are glad that we will despite the compromise, we still have a very few excellent minds that we seek to cooperate with them and that is why we are getting the report and we are very sure that the leadership of the party will do what is right because they are asked to do what is right and I believe in them. So I'd like to go to something that Mr. Colla Louboudillon said, appealing to the aspirants, you included, that might have any complaints to wait for the appeal committee. He said, and I quote, as far as we're concerned, we have done the first leg of our responsibility. The second leg is to collate the results and no results have been submitted to us at the moment, he says. People are still conducting congresses. He said, if there are complaints arising from the conduct of the congress, the aspirants themselves will have to wait for the appeal committee, which will come after the committee to file their petitions. But your elections are coming up in June. So how long do you wait for that committee to be able to address your petitions? I thank you. I thank you. Well, I'll try again. If you can hear me now, can you hear me? Okay. Mr. Colla Louboudillon is appealing to all of the aspirants in Akiti who have had complaints and of course reservations about how the conduct of that congress went. He's saying that you will all have to wait until the appeal committee, which will come after the committee and their petitions. And I'm asking, your elections are coming up sometime in June. How long will you have to wait for this petitions committee to address all of your problems and your questions? Yeah. You see, we don't have to wait for long. Number one, appeal committee met yesterday. We were invited and we presented our petitions today and were well attended to. And we believe in the matter of day or tomorrow they will be able to submit their reports for the consideration of the National Working Committee. Or let me tell you maybe. Colla Louboudillon should be ashamed of himself. He should be ashamed of his attitude. I didn't want to wonder who are the people I certainly say. You see this same set of people that they're interested in when we make, when we not complete right at the stage of that meeting. It's quite unfortunate. But I'm not surprised because they belong, they belong to the district, the end of the issue that was shown the way out. It's quite unfortunate. You see, Colla Louboudillon is in such a position of opinion, please. He has not done well. It cannot say he has done well. If this has come in, the national leadership will push trust and confidence in him, but he said then, I'm sorry. And we don't want to tell anything about him. Colla Louboudillon, please. Okay. Well, Shala Eleka is one of the governorship aspirants in the upcoming Akiti governorship elections. Thank you so much for speaking with us. We appreciate your thoughts. Thank you very much. All right. Well, thank you all for staying with us. We'll take a short break now. When we return, we discuss Governor Autumn of Benrey State and the former head of state, Abdul Salamiya Bubaka, as they speak about Baharis, Nigeria. Stay with us.