Guardian Labour Party peace truce fails in Ogun Wednesday, 04 June 2014 05:30 Written by Charles Coffie-Gyamfi, Abeokuta Category: National THE former Governor Gbenga Daniel’s faction and that of Chief Bode Simeon in the Labour Party yesterday failed to reach an agreement. Simeon’s faction accused Daniel of making desperate efforts to hijack the party from its original founders. The Simeon faction, who made other allegations against Daniel’s group, insisted that they would resist all efforts by anybody or group to take over the party structure from them. Simeon stated: “We invited them (Daniel’s group) to join us and now they want to use money to take over the party. Our party is not for sale, nobody can highjack our party’s structure.” But the Publicity Secretary of Daniel faction, Mr. Deji Kalejaiye, vehemently denied the allegations, describing Simeon’s faction an agent of destabilisation. Simeon also alleged that Daniel attempted to bribe him and his executive members with N16 million. But Kalejaiye has described the allegation as baseless and unfounded. Simeon quoted Daniel as saying in an interview on Africa Independent Television (AIT) that the Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, on his visit to Abeokuta a couple of weeks ago declared him (Daniel) as the leader of the party in the state, a statement he said was totally false. Again, he said that contrary to Daniel’s statement, it was not true that the party’s National Chairman and Secretary had inaugurated and sworn in the Osoba-led executive. “It is also not true for Daniel to say that arrangement has been concluded to settle the three plaintiffs out of the party so that capable hands can midwife the party to electoral success in the 2015 elections.” Kalejaiye, in a reaction, debunked all the allegations, describing them as baseless and illogical to the ideals of our party.”
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 06:32:22 +0000
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