The Ondo State chapter
of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged wards and local government
party chairmen to begin an aggressive house-to-house mobilisation to attract
more members into the party. Besides, it advised
the party’s leadership to shun sentiment in picking a governorship candidate
for the October 20 election in the state.
ACN Chairman in Irele
Local Government Area, Mr. David Obajulaye, said there is need for party
members to be more united for the task ahead.
Obajulaye noted that
local government and ward chairmen should be given the support that would
enhance their activities.
He advised party
members in the local government to remain steadfast and avoid the intimidation
of the ruling Labour Party (LP).
A governorship
aspirant, Dr. Olu Agunloye, expressed optimism that ACN will triumph in the
election.
Agunloye urged ACN
members not to relent in the efforts towards a legitimate change of the
government in the state through the ballot so that ailing industries in the
state could be revived to boost the economy.
He said the Olusegun
Mimiko administration has battered the state’s economy, adding that he
(Agunloye) would revamp it, if elected governor.
The former Defence
Minister noted that the only way the people could liberate themselves from
economic hardship and deprivation is to vote massively for ACN and protect
their votes during the election.
Over 1,000 members of
the LP and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defected to ACN in the local
government.
The spokesman of the
group, Mr. Peter Efetabore, said the defectors would team up with ACN to unseat
Mimiko and liberate the people from poverty and oppression. He urged old members
to avoid discrimination of the new members.
The meeting was
attended by community leaders in the 10 wards in the local government. Youth groups,
chairmanship aspirants, former Commissioner for Lands, Mr. Abass Aidi, and the
chairman of Igando-Ikotun Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State,
Mrs. Morenike Adesina-Williams.
Source:
The Nation Newspaper June 7, 2012
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/49364-ondo-acn-to-chairmen-mobilise-more-supporters.html
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