Chief Olusola Ebiseni, a governorship aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election, has now emerged as the Labour Party’s governorship candidate in the Ondo State Gubernatorial election.
Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere's secretary general, Ebiseni, has been chosen to fly the party’s flag, while the former commissioner for Youth and Sports in the state, Hon. Dayo Awude emerged as a deputy governorship candidate for the November 16th Gubernatorial election.
Addressing journalists in Akure, the state capital, Ebiseni, flanked by members of the National Transition Committee (NTC) of the party, including Comrade Abdul Waheed Omar, Dr. Kingsley Okundaye, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, and Folu Bademosi, noted that his candidacy was guided by the Electoral Act.
Ebiseni, a three-time commissioner of the state, said, “I am back home. We will provide for the people of Ondo State. Every developmental project in the state was done by LP. What additional infrastructure that people of the state had. We have deputies supplanting their governor. We have come to heal the land. We have come to give the people of the state a fresh breath.”
Ebiseni referred to the crisis plaguing the party as merely family issues, but added that every political party in the country has its own internal mechanism to resolve disagreements.
The party, which he said is one of the leading political parties in Nigeria, is expected to have internal issues, just like any other political party.
On his plans for the state he said: “We shall take full advantage of the vast resources of our state in terms of large pool of quality human resources, our position as the 5th amongst the nine oil producing states and our littoral capabilities with the longest shoreline in Nigeria, colossal forest and agricultural resources, precious rocks and other solid minerals dotting the landscape and beneath the grounds, well trained and non-partisan Civil Service for the all-round development of our great state.
“I hereby yield to the call of the good people of Ondo State to offer myself for service on the platform of the Labour Party which symbol of a bonded family symbolic representation is incidentally the meaning of my name Ebiseni.
“Labour Party is not new to our state. It is a party in which my running mate and I and a vast majority of politicians across all political parties including many of us seated herein served the state in various capacities as revealed below,” he said.
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