PDP Woos Oyinlola, Akinbade Back To Party
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, apologized to its former National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and its first Osun State Chairman, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade for the injustice they suffered that led to their exit from the party.
The National Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi who spoke through the party’s caretaker committee in Osun state, Alhaji Sarafadeen Ali asked the duo to forgive the party and return to the party to form a formidable team that would ease out the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from office.
The PDP delegates that consisted of the Osun State Caretaker Committee members and some chieftains of the party in the state at their separate visits to Oyinlola at Okuku and Akinbade in Osogbo yesterday pleaded with Akinbade to come back to the party.
While Akinbade, who was the Labour Party candidate at the 2014 gubernatorial election in the state welcomed the development and promised to give them feedback, Oyinlola regretted that the feud that be-devilled the party could degenerate to the level of disintegration that led to the defeat of the party.
Akinbade, who had thousands of his supporters on ground at the event, commended the National Executive Council of the PDP for putting in place, a caretaker committee to unite all factions in the state, adding that the committee is a better platform for those that are returning to where he said they rightly belonged.
He urged the committee to reach out to all those who left the party in the wake of the crisis, irrespective of their status, saying that the people of the state who are fed up with the current party in government will be disappointed if PDP fails to put its house in order.
