The
Unity Party of Nigeria, Ogun state chapter on Tuesday unveiled its Governorship
and Deputy governorship candidates for the forthcoming governorship election in
the State.
The
National Chairman of the Party, Professor Bankole Okuwa, flanked by the State
Chairman of the Party, Obasanjo Olakunle and other State Executives, while
addressing a press conference in Abeokuta said Otunba Femi Adeeko and Mrs
Adebunmi Bankole are the governorship and Deputy Governorship candidates for
the Party in the State in the next month election.
Prof
Okuwa said the declaration by the former State acting Chairman of the Party
that the UPN members in Ogun State had agreed to declare their support and vote
for the SDP governorship candidate in the forthcoming election was fake,
misleading and misguided.
“The UPN
in Ogun State hereby presents her candidate for the 2019 election, state
governorship and his deputy today in the persons of Otunba Femi Adeeko and his
deputy Mrs Adebunmi Bankole.
He said
the Party has other candidates for other elective positions such as Prince
Qudus Titilayo from Ijebu-Ode for the State House of Assembly and Julius Paseda
from Ijebu North/Ifelodun constituency.
Speaking
on the Party programmes and policy, Prof Okowa said “as an avowed Awoist, the
party believes in the philosophy and tested legacies of Late Chief Obafemi
Awolowo.
“The UPN
is committed to go back to free education at the primary and secondary levels,
free health services throughout and promotion of Agriculture by developing the
rural areas where farming is naturally
“Ogun
State under UPN will seek to join the Federal government and other interested
States in order to forge a grand policy to improve agriculture generally in the
country and especially in our Sate.
On
National issue, the Party threw its weight behind the suspension of the Chief
Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari, over
the CJN’s failure to fully declare his assets.
Okuwa,
who berated some members of the Nigeria Bar Association and other professional
bodies, over their stance against the President’s decision, argued that the
president had acted in good faith by suspending Onnoghen.
He said
the honour and ethos of responsibility and integrity in public office should
have been the guide of the CJN, when his
claims became doubtful and suspicious at the Code of Conduct Bureau, noting he
should have stepped aside for proper investigation to take place.
He,
however, said that the decision of President Buhari would not only restore
sanity into the Nigeria judicial system, it would also show to the world the
president’s commitment to tackle corruption.
While
calling on Nigerians to rally round the president in his determination to purge
Nigeria elite and political class of corrupt tendencies and practices, UPN
national chairman declared that “our party will always support and encourage
the president to continue attacking corruption anywhere they exist in the
interest of building worthy nation of the largest black people in Africa and
the world”.
“The
honour and ethos of responsibility and integrity in public office should have
been the guide of CJN Onnoghen, when his claims became doubtful and suspicious
at the Code of Conduct Bureau. He should have stepped aside for a proper
investigation of him instead of keeping mute, encouraging meaningless uproar
from his blind supporters all over the country.
“The
Nigeria political arrangement tends to give the judiciary an unnecessary clout
which it is not supposed to have except in a parliamentary system of
government. The suspension Saga of Chief Justice Onnoghen by President Buhari
may result in our presidential system highlighting the blind error of operating
a judiciary which is typical of a parliamentary setting of governance.
“President
Buhari remains a catalyst of any kind of presidential system as known anywhere.
The Nigeria Bar Association and other professional bodies who are crying foul
should first of all request the CJN to declare publicly, what he entered on his
assets form and if he left any questionable information out, he should tell
Nigerians why”. Okuwa submitted.
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