* Urges residents to heed Pa Adebanjo’s call to vote Peter Obi
A notable Lagos socialite and socio-political activist, Chief Adesunbo Onitiri, has dumped the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) for the Labour Party (LP), to contest the 2023 election into the Lagos Central Senatorial position.
Onitiri conveyed his decision through a statement on Sunday. In it, he accused the PDP of lacking internal democracy.
Onitiri said he is heeding “the call of our respected father, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, to support Peter Obi’s presidential bid.”
Before dumping the PDP, Onitiri was a strong member of the party where he contested against Senator Oluremi Tinubu during the 2019 senatorial election, suffering a narrow defeat in the process.
The social critic said he is quitting the PDP with his numerous supporters, admirers and friends in the Lagos Central Senatorial District to ensure a resounding victory of the Labour Party in the coming general elections in Lagos State.
He declared: “There I am imploring the entire Lagosians and residents to actively support and vote massively for the Labour Party so as to salvage our ‘wrecked’ country from total destruction and imminent calamity.
“Also, I call on our youths to claim back our country from the 62 years of criminal misrule of the old politicians.
“We have no other country we can call our own. The coming election of 2023 is very crucial and strategic to the continued existence of our dear country.”
Onitiri urged all Nigerians not to sell their votes, but to vote their conscience and therefore vote wisely. Enough is enough.
“Vote out poverty, insecurity, diseases, corruption and bad governance, he emphasised, adding:
“This is certainly not the type of democracy we fought for in 1993.”
Onitiri stressed that Nigeria is too sick to be trusted with old, nepotistic, tribal and expired politicians to govern.
“Therefore, Nigerians needed a vibrant, agile, selfless, astute and visionary leader to help us out of the myriad of problems facing the nation,” he concluded.