I remain substantive Chairman of Lagos PDP – Segun Adewale

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Segun Adewale, popularly known as Aeroland, has declared that he remains the substantive chairman of the party in the state.
Adewale recently pumped a fist against the current occupier of the chairmanship position of the party, Dr. Adegbola Dominic.
He said Dominic’s continuous occupation of the seat was against the law, as such it has become illegal to continue to do so.
The businessman and politician while recently decrying the dwindling fate of the Umbrella party in Lagos, especially in the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state, pointed out categorically that Dominic allegedly worked with subterfuge for the defeat of PDP in the state.
While speaking at an elders meeting summoned at the instance of Chief Bode George, Adewale alleged that Dominic with the connivance of some party leadership compromised the PDP’s victory by collecting an undisclosed sum of money from another gubernatorial candidate in the Lagos race.
According to him, the PDP’s governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, who was alleged to have selfishly cornered campaign funds from Abuja, which he has not been able to account for, was pointed to have worked for the emergence of Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress.
Adewale pointed that this has been the bane of the PDP in Lagos since the return of democracy in 1999.
He alleged that party stalwarts like George have always sabotaged the party’s chances at the polls by allegedly working with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to deliver victory to his party.
On March 12, in commando style, Adewale, flanked by his cronies, invaded the Ikeja Secretariat of the party and locked down the space, declaring himself as “now in charge” of party affairs in Lagos.
According to Adewale, the November 2017 process that elected Moshood Salvador, who has now defected to APC, and other state executives was a unilateral decision of one party leader, but was permitted in the interest of fostering intra-party peace.
After Salvador’s defection to the ruling APC, it was imperative to constitute an interim leadership to harmonize the party ahead of elections that ushered in the Domnic-led executive, with a 90 days tenure expiration, which, according to the books, elapsed December 21, 2019.
Adewale maintained that the letter confirming him as the chairman of the PDP, Lagos State Chapter stated that his tenure would run until June 2021.
Thus, he stepped aside in a bid to stem the prolonged feud in the state.
He said: “The letter confirming my chairmanship states my tenure expires in 2021 June.
“The letter didn’t state I should step aside.
“I stepped aside voluntarily to stem the prolonged crises in Lagos PDP.
“What I did was to allow peace to reign for the national leadership to allow full reconciliation.
“So, I decided to step aside.
“They then brought in Moshood Salvador.
“Salvador later left for APC.
“So, they said they needed somebody to fill the gap because of election.
“That was why they brought in Dr. Dominic and they gave him 90 days to act.
“His 90 days tenure has since expired and currently, we don’t have a chairman in that secretariat.
“That was the reason why I went there, chased them out.
“Right now, I am the state chairman of the party based on the letter I have, based on the election that was held before they asked me to step aside.”
According to Adewale, it has become imperative for him to act in the chairmanship capacity, thereby sacking Domnic whose administration had been marred by several misconduct that has threatened the progress of the party on several fronts.
Dominic’s regime was perceived to have recklessly changed all the authentic chairmen from the ward to the Local Government within two months to the election, thereby creating factional chairmen at the ward to LG level.
This act, Adewale maintained, received the blessings of George, whom he alleged prefers to stir up crises every four years in the party few months to the election.
In just 24 hours to the governorship election in Lagos, Dominic was also alleged to have changed the list of party agents, a move found to be suspicious and in favour of the other party he worked allegedly for at the polls.
Dominic was also alleged to have set up a parallel Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization, which Adewale said this was against the template set up at the national level, of which he was the vice chairman.
Adewale has posited that a general assembly would soon be convened where Dominic and his cohorts would be expelled from the PDP for working against the presidential and gubernatorial ambitions of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and Agbaje respectively.