Osun PDP:Caretaker Committee Chairman Has Chased Us Away- Committee Members

There seems to be no end to the crisis rocking the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as two state Caretaker Committee members of the party, Alhaji Rasaq Oyelami and Engr Adetoye Ogungboyega, have accused the Chairman of the Committee,Dr Adekunle Akindele of chasing them away from the party secretariat.

It is 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,they feared 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.

"Last Saturday, a day to the commencement of our party's primaries, the two of us met with the Chairman and Secretary of the Committee in company of Omooba Dotun Babayemi.It was there we agreed to converge on the party secretariat for the supervision and distribution of election materials for the primaries, the next day being Sunday.We all agreed to be at the party secretariat by 8 am" they said.

Accordingly, the duo said they were at the secretariat as agreed to but lamented that the Chairman,Secretary and other members of the committee from the Adeleke group did not show up until around 3.30pm.

"In between and while waiting endlessly for them,we were intermittently calling and at the same time, sending text messages to them to no avail. This made the two of us to wait for over 8 hours" they decried

"Contrary to the spirit of friendship and what was agreed to the previous day when the Chairman met the two of us,he said we should leave the party secretariat when he and others eventually showed up around 3.30pm.The Chairman said he was an administrator and that he knew no one except Ademola Adeleke because that was the instructions given to him from the party headquarters in Abuja" they added

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. We waited for this long because we thought he and his cohort would have a rethink in the true spirit of friendship and reconciliation which we are after. Alas, that's not to be as they are poised on a trip of self-destruct"

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; stressing, "his activities are totally against the spirit of reconciliation.Every of the committee's action spells destruction for the party. Maybe they are doing this because they are not from our state. Genuine members of the party and the generality of the people of the state, are the ones feeling the heat"

Signed:

Alhaji Rasaq Oyelami

&

Engr Adetoye Ogungboyega,

Members, Osun PDP Caretaker Committee