This was contained in a communique issued at the end of the meeting of the state chapter of the party on Thursday.
It was signed by the trio of Hon. Sunday Bisi, the State Party Chairman; Senator Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke, Osun State governorship candidate for the 2018 election; and Prof. Wale Oladipo, Party Leader and former National Secretary.
They expressed vehement opposition to the alleged attempt by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to hijack what had been micro-zoned to Osun State, saying: “After all, Oyo State already occupies the South West Chairmanship of the party, in person of Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja, who is a member of National working Committee.”
The delegates “therefore unanimously agreed that, all elected and statutory delegates from Osun State to the PDP National Convention should cast our votes for PRINCE OLAGUNSOYE OYINLOLA. The only candidate from Osun State for the position of Deputy National Chairman (South). We equally appeal to all the de legates from other states in Nigeria to support the candidature of Prince Oyinyola by voting massively for him at the convention.”
The Communique reads: “After an exhaustive deliberation on the forthcoming national convention of our party as it relates to the issue of post zoned to Osun State. We the elected and statutory delegates of PDP from Osun state resolve as follows:
|That the position of Deputy National Chairman of PDP (South) that has been micro-zoned to Osun state at a meeting presided over by H.E Governor Seyi Makinde in Abuja sill stands.
“That the unwarranted, orchestrated and out-rightly illegal exclusion of Prof. Wale Oladipo from standing for election as Deputy National Chairman (South) is nothing but a rape of democracy. The reasons being to smuggle in a weak and pliable candidate into that exalted office knowing fully well that Prof. Oladipo has the National reach to get easily elected at the convention.
“As a result of Prof Wale Oladipo’s exclusion. Gov. Oyinlola remains the only aspirant from Osun State for the position of Deputy National Chairman (South) of cur party at the convention
“That, we vehemently oppose the attempt by Gov. Seyi Makinde to hijack what has been micro-zoned to Osun State, after all, Oyo State already occupies the South West Chairmanship of the party, in person of Amb. Arapaja, who is a member of National working Committee.
“We therefore unanimously agreed that, all elected and statutory delegates from Osun State to the PDP National Convention should cast our votes for PRINCE OLAGUNSOYE OYINLOLA. The only candidate from Osun State for the position of Deputy National Chairman (South). We equally appeal to all the de legates from other states in Nigeria to support the candidature of Prince Oyinyola by voting massively for him at the convention.”
