Jimi Agbaje
Lagos State governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has refuted speculations that he is a mole planted by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, within the PDP.
He also said he had no intention of leaving the PDP whether or not he wins the party’s ticket at the forthcoming governorship primary.
Agbaje said this at the Protea Hotel, Ikeja, at the weekend during an interactive session with PDP youths and women leaders representing the 57 councils of the state.
He said, “People say I am a mole; impossible. I have not benefitted from Tinubu. I even supported his campaign financially.
“If anything, he owes me, so, I cannot be his mole. In fact, back in 2007 when some of us left the party, he told people that of all those who held grudges, only Jimi Agbaje had a justified grudge.”
“I never went to Tinubu’s office, except once, and that was during the Ikeja Cantonment bomb blast.
“Even when he was giving out things, I did not take anything from him. I was the treasurer for Afenifere.”
Agbaje said those insinuating that he would defect from the PDP if he failed to get the party’s ticket do not know his antecedents.
According to the 2007 governorship candidate of the Democratic Peoples’ Alliance, even though he contested then and lost, he remained in the party and sustained the structure until it was deregistered by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
He said even before he left the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in 2007, he had been offered the position of deputy governor, followed by that of a senator, but that he rejected both posts.
“I do not seek power for myself but for service. The PDP is my last bus stop. My back is to the wall. It is forward ever, backward never,” he said.
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