A former governorship candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Segun Sowunmi, has revealed the reason why he is vying for the position of the National Chairman of the party.
Sowunmi said, he is running for the number one position in the party to help revitalize and reform it, for the party to achieve success in future elections.
The PDP chieftain, who spoke at a monthly program organized by the Consolidated Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, stressed that revitalizing the party will advance a more effective and durable political environment.
Sowunmi while expressing concern over the party’s recent electoral losses in the state for three consecutive times, stated that there is a need for the party to restructure and revisit its core values and ideology in order to restore its previous glory.
He said, “If you really want to govern well, your eyes must be on all the processes that leads to government. I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt, that the platform called PDP is overdue for reformation and recalibration, not just for Ogun State, but for the country.
“I have offered myself to them to show them how to reform the party and I am telling them that I want to chair the party to reform it. I believe that at one point in time, they are going to have to make up their mind whether they want to continue to wobble, just paste posters, sell ticket and be deceiving themselves that they can win an election in such a manner or they are going to desire that reformation which we can implement?”
Explaining that members of the party lack discipline to follow their own principles, Sowunmi emphasised that they should develop leaders who are unselfish, patriotic, and prepared to lead the people in the right path.
“I discover that we have made the political space extremely full of litigations. The amount of cases we produce as a result of our primaries congress, this is a bit on the high side. So much that we have overburdened the courts. And it is because political parties do not have the discipline to obey their own rules.
“You write a rule for yourself. Nobody forced you to write that rule. Why should you be compelled and forced to obey it? So, I believe we have created political parties in the image of the person that is either governor or president. That’s not sustainable,” he said.