Former governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello, and Chief of Workers to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, Tuesday urged the Nafiu Bala-led faction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to maintain the struggle to reclaiming its management.
They made the decision of their separate goodwill messages at a dinner in honour of ADC nationwide chief, Hon. Leke Abejide, and his spouse, Deaconess Esther Abejide on her fiftieth birthday celebration in Abuja, and twentieth marriage anniversary.
Bello, who described Abejide as a dedicated democrat who pursue his political desires to the top mentioned, “Hon Leke Abejide sought to be a member of the Home of Representatives on the platform of APC then, and there are some mathematical miscalculations, however that by no means stopped him.
“He got here second time and he’s performing and touching lives throughout the board,” he mentioned.
On his half, Gbajabiamila recommended Abejide for his doggedness which he mentioned stored him on monitor in his democratic journey and profitable elections on a platform, which he stored alive and operating for lengthy.
“For a person to contest an election, face-to-face in a state the place elections are fierce, and to contest beneath a platform of a comparatively unknown social gathering, ADC, and to win back-to-back, it tells you who that man is.
“When he received the primary time, he got here on a sole ADC card to the Home. 4 years later, he went again to Kogi, he introduced any person else from the ADC.
“I do know you to be a fighter. I do know you to be somebody who doesn’t prefer to be cheated. So, please, my cost to you is to remain in that very same ADC. Battle. Battle them. Scare them. Maintain on to your social gathering, ADC. Don’t permit them. We like what you might be doing. Proceed,” he mentioned.