By Sulaiman  Adeniji

All Progressives Congress leaders of Ojokoro Local Council Development Area (LCDA) have said a purported list of consensus candidates submitted to the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi, did not emanate from a quorum of the Ojokoro Apex Council and as such, should be discarded by the state party leadership.

A letter jointly signed by Hon. Ipoola Omisore and Hon. Adisa Owolabi, both former members of the House of Representatives, on behalf of Ojokoro Apex Council, said the attention of the bonafide leaders of Ojokoro LCDA had been drawn to a purported list submitted, ostensibly by Hon. Benjamin Olabinjo, the member representing Ifako federal constituency, to the state APC chairman, Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi.

The leaders said that through informal sources and third-party confirmation from within and outside the state APC secretariat, the list was supposedly submitted to the party chairman, through Hon. James Faleke, the member representing Ikeja federal constituency.

The leaders drew the attention of the state party leadership to earlier consensus-building initiatives by peace-loving Ojokoro Apex leaders to ensure a hitch-free emergence of our LCDA chairmanship party candidate in the upcoming local government elections in the state.

They said it was at one of such numerous meetings that leaders who were present voluntarily agreed to sign a resolution adopting Mr Mobolaji Sanusi as the APC candidate for Ojokoro in the upcoming local government elections.

They added that other decisions were equally agreed upon voluntarily at that meeting.

“The beauty of democracy is the supremacy of the majority. Therefore, it is interesting to highlight that twelve out of 18 Ojokoro leaders signed for Sanusi’s adoption as the party chairmanship candidate in the upcoming elections”, they said in the letter.