Ogun 2019: SDP Secretary resigns over alleged fraud in party’s primaries

Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:00 am

SDP

The Ogun State Organising Secretary of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Suleiman Abiodun-Alli has resigned his appointment and membership of the party.

Mr Abiodun-Alli said his resignation was because of the electoral fraud and rigging allegedly carried out during the party’s primaries.

He said he won’t be a party to ‘such sham and brazen rigging of the electoral process’ as a man with conscience.

Abiodun-Alli said though he formally lodged a complaint about all the malpractices he witnessed during the primaries, he was shocked that the SDP did not do anything to address the issue raised.

According to him, ” I made a formal report about the brazen rigging that characterized the party primaries in the Ogun Central senatorial district that I supervised.

Having waited for action to be taken on the report for a week and nothing seemed to have been done but instead, the SDP called the press and declared Otunba Rotimi Paseda- the beneficiary of that election fraud as the winner”.

Mr Abiodun-Alli, said as a principled man with conscience, he won’t be part of such embracement and promotion of sham called election”.

He stated that, “If the purported winner had won in a free and fair primary election, he would have stayed back and contribute his valuable knowledge and experience to the party”

Mr Abiodun-Alli however thanked the Chairman and other executive members for the opportunity afforded him to serve.