Tukur has many excesses, says Oyinlola Posted by: Adesoji Adeniyi (The Nation) National Secretary of the Kawu Baraje-led new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, yesterday explained why he joined the faction. Oyinlola, a former Osun State governor, who was edged out of the national secretary’s seat of the PDP, spoke in his home town Okuku, on his new role in the Baraje group. He described Tukur, under whom he served, as being “engaged in too many excesses,” adding: “All my efforts to make him realise these failed.” Oyinlola recalled that “When our executive council came on board, he (Tukur) was holding the party meeting from his private house rather than from the party secretariat.” He said Governors Sule Lamido,(Jigawa), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Aliyu Babangida (Niger) Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako, who was allegedly locked out of the party’s mini convention at the Eagle Square last month, were fighting the injustice of his removal as the PDP national secretary . he denied that he “left their convention venue under the pretext that I wanted to go to the toilet” but added that “It was not easy for me to stay there and watch what they were doing.They locked out the Adamawa State governor and his people. They doctored the lists of delegates from Anambra and Rivers states.” A former chairman of the PDP in Osun State, Alhaji Ademola Rasaq, described the threat by the Gani Ola-Oluwa-led state executive to sanction whoever assoicates with the Baraje faction as empty. He listed some chieftains of the party in the state, including Senators Isiaka Adeleke, Yinka Omilani, Felix Ogunwale, Simeon Oduoye and three of the governorship aspirants – Mr. Wole Oke, Ahaji Fatai Akinbade and Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi as belonging to the Baraje faction. But a member of the party’s Elders Committee, Chief Abiola Ogundokun, described Oyinlola’s joining of the Baraje faction as a betrayal of trust. Ogundokun, who spoke with reporters in Osogbo, the Osun State capital berated them for “rocking the boat of the party”. He alleged that Oyinlola walked out of the party’s mini convention in Abuja after pretending that he was going to ease himself.. Ogundokun said: “Oyinlola, rather than wait on the Lord, is always eager to occupy positions. He snatched the secretary post from Chief Ebenezer Babatope, who was originally the members’ candidate. Oyinlola is a betrayal of trust. He should learn to wait on the Lord. “He should have learnt the lessons that it is God that puts people in positions. Now, he is seeing the hands of God and he should know that whatever God does not support cannot stand. And he has benefited from the party more than anyone else. He was governor on the PDP platform twice. Briefly, he was national secretary. “He should accept God’s verdict rather than looking for the downfall of a party through which he substantially benefited. “Oyinlola should stop exhibiting the spirit of ‘if I don’t get it I will destroy it’. When he was inciting the elders against Jonathan, some us disagreed with him.” Ogundokun also challenged Oyinlola to give account of the 20 additional board appointment slots given to Osun State when he was national secretary. He alleged that the former governor gave the jobs to his cronies. Ogundokun said Oyinlola should name those he gave the slots to and where they are from and explain who signed on behalf of the state chairman.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 06:40:58 +0000
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