Factional governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State Otunba Segun Showunmi yesterday said there was no division in the chapter.
He said members would accept the verdict of the court on its authentic standard-bearer ahead of the election.
Showunmi, who spoke with reporters in Lagos, hoped that he would be on the ballot in the governorship election, especially as the Court of Appeal in Abuja had given a consequential order dismissing the ruling of a lower court over jurisdiction to hear the suit between him, the PDP and others.
He said his campaign would begin on September 28, adding that his style would be issues-based.
Reiterating his acceptance of party supremacy at the national and state levels, the governorship hopeful maintained that the primary election conducted by the Ladi Adebutu camp remained a charade and would not stand.
Insisting that the PDP in Ogun State was not factionalised, Showunmi, the spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign in 2019, said: “A political party is the creation of the law and what makes a party have the right to even claim it is a political party is its constitution and the grand law, which is the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. No legally created organ can be given the wherewithal to act as if it doesn’t know that it is a creation of the law.
“So, as it concerns supposed recognition here and there, don’t worry, they will recognise everything that needs to be recognised. Like you are well aware that the Court of Appeal has given us the first favourable judgment, I trust that we will be fine.
“I actually don’t think we are divided, to be fair. We both accept the supremacy of our national organs. My position is that whatever it is they called their primary election is a charade, it can’t hold and it can’t stand. The primaries that produced me as candidate followed the extant laws of the country and in due season, they will definitely come to the point they have to come to.”