NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: Dr Fredrick Fasehun's UPN dumps Abiola’s wife, endorses Agbaje

The Dr. Fredrick Fasehun-led Unity Party of Nigeria has dumped its Lagos State governorship candidate, Mrs. Dupe Onitiri-Abiola, who is the wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, MKO Abiola.

The UPN subsequently endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje at a rally on Wednesday.

Fasehun, who is also the Founder of the Odua Peoples Congress, openly called on supporters at a rally at the Tafawa Balewa Square to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday and Agbaje on April 11.

While delivering his speech titled, ‘Why Nigerians want Jonathan back on March 28, 2015, and should vote Jimi Agbaje of the PDP, Fasehun, told the crowd that “Jonathan is the best man for the job because as President he has recorded unassailable achievements in the area of education, infrastructure, agriculture and others.”

He said, “Jimi Agbaje is the best of those available for the job of Governor of Lagos State. Agbaje comes with a sound pedigree, with ideals and programmes rooted in the Awoist and Afenifere stock. He will break the cycle of corruption and self-serving system entrenched in Lagos today.”

While calling on all Nigerians to vote for Jonathan on Saturday, Fasehun said, “Of all those contesting the Presidency today, Dr. Jonathan remains the best fit for the job. Jonathan has shown himself a lamb of peace, committed to the peaceful existence of a strong, formidable and united Nigeria

“Jonathan convened the long-awaited and critical National Conference. He recognises the National Conference as a roadmap to the Nigeria of the future and is committed to its implementation. In contrast, the opposition leaders have positioned themselves in hostility to the agreements reached at the confab and are sworn to jettisoning its far-reaching and epochal agreements and resolutions.”

He said Jonathan should be allowed to rule for another four years because he is from the South-South geo-political zone and it is their turn to rule.

Fasehun stressed that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not the messiah but an impostor.

The UPN national chairman said Buhari could not claim to be an anti-corruption crusader because he was surrounded by corrupt politicians.