Oyo PDP Says Aggrieved Party Leaders Fighting ‘ Makinde For Sacking Corrupt Govt Appointees

The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has frowned on the action of some aggrieved leaders of the party who passed vote of no confidence in Governor Seyi Makinde.

The aggrieved leaders had on Monday held a meeting and passed vote of no confidence in the leadership of Makinde ahead of the congress of the party which is starting from Saturday.

The leaders, including a former Deputy Governor of the state, Hazeem Gbolarumi;, former Majority Leader, House of Reps, Mulikat Adeola-Akande; Alhaji Adebisi Olopoeyan, Nureni Akanbi and others were part of the leaders from to the 33 local government areas of the state who jointly took the decision.

But reacting to the action of the aggrieved leaders, the Publicity Secretary of the PDP in the state, Akeem Olatunji, in a statement made available to THE WHISTLER on Tuesday said some of the aggrieved leaders engaged in anti-Makinde campaign because the governor sacked their candidates appointed into government for lacking integrity.

The statement read, “While the ruling party acknowledged personal aspirations, political interests and other reasons for political participation by individuals, it strongly frowned at any form of anti-party activities by anyone or group of persons within the party.

” Politics is local and should be played based on individual popularity and general acceptability at the grassroots, especially at the ward and local government levels. Anyone who is ready to dine with the devil to destroy his or her own house is merely acting out of gross ignorance of history.

“We want to state unequivocally that no man or woman with genuine love for his or her own household would want to destroy the family except such man or woman has started receiving gratification or personal benefits to accomplish such task.

“There is no part of the world where the political landscape is devoid of mixed feelings from time to time due to presumably unachieved expectations for whatever reason, but that is never a licence to embark on a campaign of sheer political blackmail in order to recruit unsuspecting political members into a selfish, perilous and very personal scheme to bring down a God sent man simply because of some unfulfilled personal and political gain, to the detriment of the masses.

“Some of the members who claimed to be aggrieved are merely acting out their frustrations after their candidates in government were either redeployed due to incompetence or shown the exit door due to gross misconduct bothering on challenge of integrity.

“The fact remains that they will never tell you details of their supposed grievances against Governor Seyi Makinde other than the very parochial narrative of ‘unfulfilled promises’, and these spurious claims are merely aimed at currying undue and undeserved public sympathy.”