March 17, (THEWILL) – Former spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation in the 2019 election, Segun Sowunmi, has said that he would improve on the vision of the Premier of Western Region, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo to govern Ogun State if elected as governor.
Sowunmi disclosed this on Wednesday, as he officially declared his ambition to run for the governorship race in the state under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party
The Public Affairs Analyst, while speaking at the skating ground, Pasenke, Abeokuta, with party stakeholders drawn from the 20 councils, said that he decided to join the number one seat race due to calls by the people of the state.
Sowunmi said that the state needed a man like him who would improve, rewrite and expand Awolowo’s vision to steer its affairs to a greater height, if elected the governor in the next election.
He attributed failure of the PDP to have won governorship in the past years to crisis in the party, calling on members of the main opposition party to sheath their swords and work for the success of the party at the 2023 election.
“The business of governance of cutting tape because of roads is not what we are talking about here. Obafemi Awolowo’s vision for Yoruba nation has now come to be, improved, rewritten and expanded.
“All you have said concerning Segun Sowunmi to come and run for Governor, I have heard and I heard clearly. I will definitely, most definitely and extremely definitely run for the Governorship of Ogun State in 2023.
“All our (PDP) efforts have not produced any result for some time and the main reason is the unnecessary infighting.
“I have spent the last 20 years or more in this political dispensation serving them, speaking for them, improving them, running for them and I have now realised that I’m the leader I have been searching for and I tell you again with every sense of responsibility, that you have never seen governance at the level I intend to do it”, he added.
Meanwhile, the party chieftains and members across all the wards were unanimous in their call for Showunmi to contest, saying it was time to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state.
