OYO PDP GOES CRIPPLED AS ACCORD PARTY RISES TO PROMINENCE IN SOUTH WEST. ****---************* In view of the enormity of the crippling crisis in Oyo PDP, the party has been flogged into a recession by its own leaders and members on account of conflicting interests and mutual suspicion.Heavy factionalisation of the party may affect its chances in the polls.Like an economy sagged into recession by poor corporate governance.As it is in Ogun, so it is in Oyo, the political capital of the defunct Western Region. There are three main factions of the party in the state and these groups are: the Adebayo Alao-Akala faction, the Teslim Folarin faction,and the Olajumoke Akinjide faction. The party has two state secretariats and two state executives of the party produced at the parallel state congress in March, 2012.Folarin, a former senate leader and governorship aspirant in the party, has his faction recognised by the national leadership of the party under the Bamanga Tukur chairmanship. The two other groups in the party had since shouted to the rooftop the need for justice and equity and fairness in theparty. They argued that only the dismantling of the current structure of the party to pave way for its all-inclusive reconstitution was the only way the party could be positioned to win the next governorship seat in the state.Many of the non-aligned leaders and members of the party have joined the Accord Party, citing the seeming intractability of the crisis in the PDP as reason. But unlike in Ogun, there are as many as about 12 governorship aspirants eyeing the ticket of the party with the intention of fighting dirty to polarize the party further.Speaking on the crisis in the South-West chapter of the party and why the party is losing some of its leaders to the opposition parties, a former Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly and PDP chieftain, Right Honourable Asimiyu Alarape, said: “the drift can be arrested if the PDP leadership is so genuinely inclined to resolve all the crises in the state chapters in the zone. The national headquarters of the party must sit up and carefully investigate the veracity of the claimsby some individuals who, because of unbridled ambition, always paint a no-problem fairy tales and pretend as if all is well.’’The rise of AccordThe rate at which aggrieved chieftains of the PDP have been trooping to Senator Rashidi Ladoja’s Accord Party is very high. The party, which is at the vanguard of the Third Force, has been presenting itself as alternatives to the APC and the troubled PDP in the South-West region.From cashing in on the lack of coherence in PDP and profiting maximally from it in Oyo, Accord Party, which was only heard of in the politics of the South-West in 2011, when Ladoja made a strong showing in the 2011 elections in the Oyo on its platform, has spread its tentacles to Ekiti, Osun, Ogun and Lagos.Accord has a candidate in the Ekiti election later this month and aggrieved governorship aspirants in Osun have been beseeching Ladoja to anoint them to use the platform in the August 9 polls. In Ogun State, it is being speculated that Governor Ibikunle Amosun might be romancing Ladoja to fly Accord’s flag next year, if the crisis between him and former governor Segun Osoba comes to a head. Big politicians are constantly being linked with the party in Lagos and the party is said to be position to profit from the likely implosion in Lagos APC over who succeeds Governor Babatunde Fashola!!!
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:30:31 +0000
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