PDP To Oyinlola: You Can’t Return As National Secretary

DESPITE last Wednesday’s Appeal Court ruling reinstating former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as National Secretary of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Southwest leadership of the party has told Oyinlola to forget a return to the post, just as the Osun State chapter said he is currently not a PDP member.

  The zonal leadership of the party, consisting of the Zonal Caretaker Committee, State Chairmen Forum, Elders Committee, the Stakeholders Forum, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee, Women and Youth fora, said: “It is height of self-delusion for Oyinlola and his co-travellers to imagine that he would return as the National Secretary of our great party, when a Motion for Stay of Execution has been filed at the Court of Appeal and there is a pending appeal against at the Supreme.”

   In a statement issued yesterday by the Acting Zonal Caretaker Committee Chairman, Adedeji Doherty, stated: “It is an indubitable fact that he has since left our great party for a group known that has been outlawed by a court of competent jurisdiction. 

  “The said group has been meeting with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and it was on the basis of these and other anti-party acts that some of his loyalists were recently suspended by the state chapter.”

  The party wondered where Oyinlola and his supporters seek to return him, asking: “Is it as the National Secretary of a party he voluntarily left or as the National Secretary of his illegal group?”

  It vowed to resist any attempt to arm-twist the national leadership of the party “to take any hasty decision concerning the Court of Appeal verdict.

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