Dotun Babayemi, a previous candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party's governorship in Osun State, pledged on Sunday to work for the victory of the party's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and other candidates running on the PDP platform in the 2023 elections.
At the 25th memorial service held at Gbongan on Sunday in honour of his father, Oba Solomon Babayemi, the Olufi of Gbongan, Babayemi gave a speech.
He continued by saying that the PDP was the only party that could rescue the nation from its troubles and vowed to keep working to ensure the party's victory in the upcoming elections in 2023.
“PDP is the only party that can take the country out of its current woods. In this vein, I am doing everything necessary at wards, local governments, and state levels as well as the South-West, to ensure the emergence of the PDP come 2023,” he said.
A statement by the spokesperson of Babayemi Campaign Organisation, Kayode Oladeji, also noted that the homilist at the service, Bishop Oluwagbemiro Fabuluje, condemned Babayemi’s kinsmen in the PDP that supported his expulsion from the party.
Encouraging Babayemi, he enjoined him not to be deterred by the turn of events saying, “To you Omooba Dotun Babayemi, I will implore you to keep your vision and hope alive; don’t be discouraged, pursue it. God has given you a vision for Osun State and it will surely come to pass. It may not yet be your time, but your time will surely come and you will surely get there by the grace of God.”