Yewas knock Bankole over gov poll.

The Yewa – Awori
indigenes of Ogun
West have warned
former Speaker of
the House of
Representatives,
Dimeji Bankole,
against casting
aspersion on
Gboyega Nasir
Isiaka over his
emergence as the
governorship
candidate of the
Peoples
Democratic Party
(PDP) in the state.
The Ogun West
people, who
organised
themselves under
the Gboyega Nasir
Isiaka Campaign
Organisation
(GNICO), also
asked Bankole to
restrain members
of his campaign
group from
causing further
disaffection
within Ogun PDP
over the party’s
governorship
primaries which
produced their
kinsman as the
standard bearer of
the party.
A statement
issued in
Abeokuta, the
state capital, by
GNICO Director of
Media and
Publicity,
Ifekayode
Akinbode, said the
people enjoined
Bankole and his
group to have a
rethink over their
stance on the
matter because
they are still of
the same political
family.
The Yewa – Awori
people, in the
statement,
expressed disgust
that the Dimeji
Bankole
Movement could
term the
solidarity rally,
which they staged
recently in
Abeokuta against
an attempt to
deprive their
kinsman of the
governorship
ticket as “a red
herring meant to
cause confusion in
the party.
“Bankole’s
continuous
disregard for the
Yewa – Awori
people is now
legendary and
unbecoming of his
stature.
“Is it a crime to
protest injustice?
Has Bankole
forgotten what he
learnt as a
lawmaker to
promote and
protect the law,
which guarantees
freedom of
association and
expression?
“This is
particularly
disgusting and
arrogant but we
leave him to the
forebears of
Yewa/Awori to
give him the right
judgment when
the time comes”.
Ogun West also
lamented that
Bankole and his
group could
exhibit public
disdain for the
national
leadership of PDP
by calling
Gboyega Isiaka “a
fake product of an
unauthorised
primary election.”