2019 Oyo Guber: Gov Makinde Acknowledges Late Soji Adagunodo’s Role In Getting Party Nomination

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has publicly acknowledged the role played by Hon. Soji Adagunodo in ensuring that he got nominated as PDP candidate ahead of the 2019 Oyo state gubernatorial election.

 Makinde , who is currently having his second term, won re-election in March this year.

Adagunodo was until his death in May this year, the PDP National Vice Chairman (South-West).

Governor Makinde has called the deceased politician a stabilizer who worked hard for the progress of the party at the state and national levels.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the governor said this while giving his speech during the Commendation Service  held for  the late PDP bigwig at the frontage of the Presidential Lodge, Government House, Agodi, Ibadan on Thursday.

 ‘In 2018, I was to run for the governorship of Oyo state. We had challenges and my emergence as candidate was with rancour. As different groups were fighting one another.

Adagunodo was the chairman of the PDP in Osun state, but his people were always here.

Alhaji Kunmi Mustapha was then our party chairman in Oyo state,   and they were all working towards the stabilization agenda of Hon. Adagunodo, with whom they had several meetings in the middle of the night.

What was he trying to do? He was trying to get my own chairman here to accept me as the candidate of the PDP and work for PDP.

He did all of that work not because he is from Oyo state but because of his love for the PDP in the South-West and, by extension, nationally.

Adagunodo was able to convince them, and they supported me in 2018 while going into 2019 election and we won.

For my re-election, he was already sick and even with that, he would come to my house, arrange the PDP in the South-West to be with us and go to everywhere with us.

What more will you want in a committed leader? What can we do? If God decides on what he wants to do, we cannot fight Him.

But one thing I am bold to say here is that this is a celebration of life.
Yes, he left us at a very young age but left with strings of achievements.

He was a member of the Osun state House of Assembly, State Chairman of PDP, National Vice Chairman of a major party in Nigeria, Chairman of the major zone of a major party in Nigeria.

So, we should celebrate him and his impact on the political terrain of Osun state, the entire South-West and Nigeria’ he said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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