My attention has been drawn to a communiqué purportedly issued by some PDP leaders in the Southwest calling on me, the National Secretary Prof. Adewale Oladipo and the National Auditor, Alhaji Adewole Adeyanju to resign from the National Working Committee.
According to the communiqué, the resignation was to pave way for the dissolution of the National Working Committee as a fall out of the 2015 general elections.
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However, a very careful
examination of the inherent breaches in the procedures adopted in the convening
of the meeting as well as the content and tone of its resolution shows an
orchestration by a few individuals bent on sowing a seed of discord within the
PDP fold in the zone.
This is evident in the
fact that the said communiqué in no way reflected the views of majority of those
who attended the meeting, neither did it tally with the opinion of the
generality of our party members in the region.
It is indeed undermining
and a clear breach of protocol the fact that a meeting of some leaders of the
zone would be convened to discuss issues of the party’s Presidential campaigns and
the highest-ranking national officers of the party from the zone were excluded.
This is in continuation of the apparent marginalization of the National Working
Committee and the party structure at all levels in the handling of the
Presidential campaigns.
Moreso, even some of
those who attended the meeting were not privy to the agenda and the eventual
content of the communiqué issued at the end.
In view of the above
therefore, it will be absolutely unpatriotic and against the wishes and
aspirations of majority of our party members from the southwest through whose
mandate we occupy the offices of the National Secretary and the National
Auditor respectively, if we concede to the demands in the communiqué,
especially given the fact that as elected members of the National Working
Committee, our positions have a tenure which lasts until March 2016.
Moreover, members of the
PDP in Osun State, my primary constituency, have already passed a vote of
confidence on me in my capacity as the National Secretary.
Furthermore, while some
of those asking us to resign performed very poorly even in their polling units,
it is on record that the National Auditor and my humble self performed
creditably and delivered our areas in the general elections.
It is therefore
disheartening that rather than joining other well-meaning members of our great
party in supporting the National Working Committee in the on-going
re-engineering process to rebuild the PDP, some elders from our zone,
particularly, a former Deputy National Chairman, Chief Olabode George, who
should know, have instead resorted to divisive politics by attempting to
instigate our members against one another.
What our party needs now
in the southwest and indeed across the country is for all hands to be on the
deck as we work harmoniously in our determination to reposition the PDP to
regain power in 2019.
Our party members are by
this therefore charged to watch out for individuals whose agenda is to sow
seeds of discord and pave way for crisis within our fold for their selfish
interests.
The National Working Committee
is now more than ever before determined to rebuild the PDP and restore its
glory as the preeminent political party in Nigeria. This resolve is irrevocable
and we shall not allow ourselves to be distracted in anyway by any person under
any guise whatsoever.
Signed:
Prof. Adewale Oladipo
National Secretary
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