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The members of the
Ondo State House of Assembly seeking re-election in the 2011 general
elections under the platform of the Labour Party should go to their
various constituencies and campaign, the party’s leadership has said.

Olaiya Oni, the
Labour Party chairman who dropped the hint when the 13 lawmakers went
to the party’s secretariat to procure nomination forms.

Mr. Oni noted that
the party was ready to conduct transparent primaries adding that there
will be no automatic tickets for any political office holders seeking
re-election.

The party chief,
however, commended the nine LP lawmakers who were declared winners of
the election held on April 14, 2007 for their steadfast and rare show
of loyalty when the party was struggling to regain its mandate.

“For 21 months that
we were battling to reclaim our mandate, the nine LP lawmakers shunned
all forms of financial inducement and remained steadfast to our course.
They were sending N400, 000 to the party secretariat regularly.

“It is not as if we
are endorsing them as a party; we are only commending them for the work
they had done in the past. We will also be glad if they are re-elected
to continue the quality representation they have been providing for
their people.”

The lawmakers are:
Emiola Dare, Ifedayo Akinsoyinu, Oladejo Adeloye, Akinsiku Afolabi,
Abiodun Ogunbi, Omotayo Abidakun, Henry Akinsuroju, Bakita Bello,
Ayodele Awodeyi, Samuel Pelemo, Oyebo Aladetan, Olatunji Dairo, Adeniyi
Akindele and Dejo Adeloye.

Speaking on behalf
of his colleagues shortly after submitting the forms the Majority
Leader of the Assembly, Ifedayo Akinsoyinu, said, “We decided to come
as a team to submit our forms because we believe that together, we can
effectively work with the executive to deliver dividends of democracy
in the next political dispensation.

“We are seeking re-election because we had many unfinished assignments at the House which we hoped to complete”.