Former senate leader and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in Oyo State, Sen.  Teslim Kolawole Folarin assured his teeming supporters that there is no cause for alarm regarding the letter by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) restraining the electoral body from recognizing the party's candidates for the 2015 general elections in Oyo State.

The former senate leader gave this assurance at the party’s stakeholders' meeting held at the state party's secretariat, Mokola, Ibadan while fielding questions from journalists after the party's
stakeholders' meeting.

“The letter under reference had not taken into account other internal steps taken after the court order,  the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would in a couple of days come up with the true and correct position of things in the state as regards the primary elections in the state.” He said.

Folarin maintained that he and other contestants would contest the 2015 elections; he urged party faithful to ignore anything contrary to this and begin work in earnest for the battle ahead, which he said would be fierce, but would turn out in their favour at the end of the day.

He equally allayed the fears of the generality of the people of the state on the attitude of other aspirants to his emergence, stressing that there had been series of meetings between him and other contestant who had stayed behind in the party stating that the whole thing looked promising.

The PDP governorship candidate said some of them would have been part of the stakeholders' meeting held earlier, but, he counseled against it to allow for one more meeting to be held where everything would be ironed out finally.

He said the party would miss those who had defected to other parties, following disagreement over his emergence as the party's governorship candidate, but, he maintained that such could not be ruled out in politics, noting however that it was not a loss to the party as some people had also come to the party.

Folarin said the stakeholders' meeting held earlier, which was attended by some party bigwigs including Lekan Balogun, Saka Balogun among others was a pointer to the effect that the PDP in Oyo State was on course,

"Some of those who could not make it among our leaders like Jumoke Akinjide, Minister of State for FCT, Yekini Adeojo, Azeem Gbolarumi sent representatives to show that they were part of us".