South-West Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seyi Bamidele, on Friday announced that he and members of the party, who are youth, would not be part of a town hall meeting scheduled to hold next Monday in Lagos.
The meeting is aimed to bring youth in the region together for the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar.
Bamidele, in a statement, accused the party’s National Youth Leader, Mohammed Suleiman of keeping out PDP youth from the region in the planning of the event.
Bamidele said he was sidelined for alleged support for the move to oust the National Chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu.
Although he pledged his loyalty to the PDP, he declared that he and other youth in the South-West caucus would not be part of the event.
The statement read, “It is unbelievable that the PDP national youth leader, Mohammed Kadade Suleiman, could be organising a town hall meeting in Lagos, South West, without involving the office of South West Zonal Youth Leader.
“It was alleged that I joined the AYU MUST GO crusade. Perhaps, what such a decision implies is that the zonal Youth leader and indeed South West PDP youth are irrelevant to the mission to intrinsically combine efforts in ensuring that our presidential candidate and other candidates of the party have impressive outing come February 25th and March 11 elections.
“However, I must register my aversion to this uncoordinated and awkward approach to this seeming chance of having youth in our region well-reached and galvanised to vote for our presidential candidate and other candidates of the party in the coming elections. Even with that said, my loyalty to the PDP remains solid.
“To embark on this youth mobilisation in this graceless, overbearing and autocratic way is an indication of evil waiting to happen. I and good PDP youth from the region will certainly not be part of the event, but we remain committed members of the party.”
