Osun PDP Heading For The Precipice – Caretaker Committee Members Laments
Recent efforts to unite the Osun State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party PDP may have hit the rock with the allegations of marginalisation levelled by loyalists of Omooba Dotun Babayemi against the chairman of the Caretaker Committee in the state.
Alhaji Rasaq Oyelami and Engr Adetoye Ogungboyega, who are members of the Caretaker Committee accused the chairman, Dr Adekunle Akindele of chasing them away from the party secretariat.
Recalled that at the expiration of the state executive of the party, the Iyorchia Ayu led leadership of the party, put in place a 7-man Committee which comprised those from Omooba Dotun Babayemi and Senator Ademola Adeleke’s groups headed by Dr Adekunle Akindele that will steer the ship of the party for three months before a new executive is elected.
However, in a statement jointly signed by Oyelami and Ogungboyega and made available to newsmen in Osogbo on Thursday contended that the committee put in place by the national leadership of the party, might be on a mission to ensure the final burial of PDP in the state.
They noted that the chairman shunned efforts to reunite the party by claiming that he knew no one except Ademola Adeleke because that was the instructions given to him from the party headquarters in Abuja.
While further accusing Akindele of being segregative in his actions within the party, they said he vowed never to allow them have access to the party secretariat until probably after the national convention of the party when everything must have been wrapped up.
The aggrieved caretaker members stressed further that “In the light of the above, we have related what we went through to some of our leaders such as the former governor of the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Omooba Dotun Babayemi, our gubernatorial candidate and others”
Oyelami and Ogungboyega warned that unless stakeholders and leadership of the party caution the Caretaker Committee Chairman, the party might be heading for the precipice.
