Transcripts of Olagunsoye Oyinlola’s speech at RAUF AREGBESOLA APC mega rally on Tuesday in Osogbo When Jonathan wanted to contest election, he came to me for support and i told him that he needed to see someone very important. We have a leader, who command huge following. He has a rod, like a Fulani herdsman, with which he herds thousands of cattle. He has me who the person is and i told him it is former President olusegun Obasanjo. He contacted Obasanjo and the elderly man accepted the rersponsibility. When one is loved, such a man has no shortcomings. So, Obasanjo gathered all of us and we swung into action. When we got to Abuja we held discussion. Obasanjo said we should closed our eyes away from the party constitution, which established the rotational presidency between the North and the South for eight years of two terms. That was how we planned it and Jonathan became president. The Yoruba people have a saying that ‘a hen fed with corn should reciprocate with eggs. Jonathan did not reciprocate our good gesture to him. Rather he shortchanged the South-West. Our situation in Yoruba land now resembles the Obinde predicarment: Obinde’s husband died and her people offered her as collateral for a fund with with they well perform the burial rites of her husband. This was how the Obinde predicament affected us: in our party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), there are six top positions which zone to six geo-political zones of the country. They are: President, Vice President, Senate President, Speaker of House of Representatives, Secretary to the Federal Government (SFG), National Chairman of the Party. I need not ask you which one we have, not a single one of the six is zoned to the South-West. That is the first Obinde predicament of the South-West. The second predicarment is: Obasanjo,the man who strategised and worked assiduously for the realisation Jonathan’ Presidency was reduced to a toothless bulldog to be insulted and chased away. Obasanjo, like the proverbial dog, chased and killed the grasscutter and within a twinkling of an eye, the dog was prevented from touching the game lest it should spoil the meat. The third predicament is that the state PDP structure in Ogun State was disolved without consultation with Obasanjo, who is not only the leader in the state but in Nigeria. Again, the party structure in South-West which former Governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni, headed, was also dissolve without consulting anybody in the zone, not even President Obasanjo. I remebered when we did the party congress here in Osogbo, Jonathan was there for almost 11 hours. If i should continue these act of deceit played on the South-West, for hours on end i will still not finish. But the biggest of the Jonathan deceit, which Yoruba people should ponder over is that if you count people in top position of government at the Federal level, there is no single Yoruba man. The only psotion that we can point to ocuupied by Yoruban man is that of the Chief of Staff in the Nigerian Amy and that position is not in the constitution of Nigeria. Then the second part of the predicament – and the reason why people of Osun should not vote for PDP – is, one: “Chief Bisi Akande, please come out here. Let me ask you the people of the state: ‘Did you vote for Chief Akande? (the crowd answered in the affirmative.) ‘Isiaka Adeleke, come out here. Did you people vote for him? (the people chorused yes.) This is Prince Oyinlola. Did you people vote for me? (people answered affirmatively) Then, let us call Aregbesola too. Did you people vote for him? (the answer was the same.)’ This isthe drift of my argument: we have seen Sakotun, Sakosi, Saketa and Sakerin, what remains is Isakusa (if we count the first, the second, third and fourth amongst equals, what is left after is paper weight. This was in apparent refrence to all the governors the state has had: Senator Isiaka Adeleke; Chief Bisi Akakade, Oyinlola himself and Ogbeni rauf Aregbesola.) That is my first reason. The second reason why you must not vote for PDP is that its candidate in the Saturday election is characteristically selfish. He is concerned with what touches him alone. The reason why I said so is that how Bola Ige died, only God knows. But all I know is that he has selfish tendencies. Not quite a while when bola ige died, Omisore got the PDP ticket to contest electio for governorship. When he wanted to pick the secretary of PD P to replace me in Abuja, he picked prof. Wale Oladipo. Both Omisore and Oladipo were both remanded in Agodi Prison in Ibadan. When he wanted to pick a Minister, he appointed my former commissioner, Jelili Adesiyan as police Affairs minsiter. They were at Agodi Prison together. When he wanted to choose the party chairman in the state, he appointed gani Olaoluwa. They were togther at Agodi Prison. The person being positioned to contest for a seat in the Senate from Osun West here is Kunle Lele. They were at Agodi prison together. The question I want to ask is: if we did not share rooms at the prison, we can’t be allowed to contest any political post? A similar thing to it is that, all these people i mentioned are the same, except the person he now have as his running mate, Adejare bello. In 2003, all the people i mentioned defected from Alliance for Democracy to PDP. Only Adejare bello came from All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP). All of them have positioned themselves to take over PDP and chair the available political positions amongst themselves. What becomes of the fate of those they met in the party. Are they saying none of the members of the PDP, who have been tendering the party, is useful again? It is like the Yoruba saying: you called on someone to come and eat and he washed both hands, should the owner of the food now bath before eating the food? Another reason why you must not vote for them is that their house in disarray. When Isiaka Adeleke could not stomach the internal strife in the party, he decamped to APC with his teeming supporters. The Secretary to State government when I was in power, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade and his supporters also went to labour Party (LP) when he could not tolerate their excesses. When we had irreconcilable differences, I too and my teeming supporters also left the PDP for APC. What is left of their party. The hen has come home to roost; the market has dispatched. I have information for you, the youth. When we established the Osun State University, we located one faculty each in six zones of the state. Our intention then was that if we subsequentlt add two faculties to each of the faculty in each zone, we will have six universities-in-one. To be honest, I pried into Aregbesola’s programmes. Will this not help us. Let me reveal one of the behavious of their candidate because i know him very well. If he wants you to hear him when he speaks, he will careful choose his world one by one. If he accelerates his speech to 1000 words per minute (WPM) no one will hear what he is saying again. I have given you all these reason why you should not vote for them in case of the future. It will be too late so lament. We are witnessing hell in Abuja. It is now left to us consolidate on what we have. By God’s grace on Saturday, we shall come out in flying colours.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:32:21 +0000
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