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South-West PDP Caretaker Committee suspends chairman, disowns Oyinlola’s reconciliation body

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South-West Zonal Caretaker Committee yesterday suspended its Chairman, Dayo Ogungbenro, for an alleged negligence of duty, having failed to call meetings since his appointment.

 

Seven of 12 members in the Caretaker Committee, who suspended the chairman, also called on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to appoint another chairman “who will be alive to his duties to pilot the affairs of the party in the zone pending the conduct of the zonal congress.”

 

Rising from its meeting in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, the seven members; Zonal Sec  etary, Hon. Daisi Akintan, Mrs. Funmilayo Ogun, Hon. Ayobola Fadeyi- Awolowo, Prince Nekan Olateru- Olagbegi, Hon Wahab Owokoniran, Alhaji Mustapha Sikiru and Hon. Martins Olu- Abiloye, insisted that on no account would they sit in any meeting with the suspended chairman.

 

The meeting was also attended by Engr. Adedeji Doherty, Hon Sikirulai Ogundele, Hon. Sunday Bisi and Chief Bisi Kolawole, Chairmen of Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Ekiti States respectively. They said: “The Chairman, Dayo Ogungbenro, had abdicated his responsibilities. He has not called any meeting since the Caretaker Committee was appointed, thus making the party to lack direction. Even when we had elections in Ondo and Lagos States, the Chairman did not call any meeting to plan for the elections, hence the abysmal performance of the party.” Also, in its bid for the party to have effective media and publicity, the meeting appointed Mr. Lere Olayinka as spokesperson for the PDP in the South-West zone, saying that the party, being in the opposition in the zone, needed a vibrant media and Olayinka fitted the bill. On the reconciliation embarked upon by former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the committee said no such reconciliation committee was known to the party, saying “to the best of our knowledge, Prince Oyinlola only accepted to run political errand for Governor Seyi Makinde, being a contractor in Oyo State. His so-called reconciliation committee is not only self-serving, but represents personal interest and

dead on arrival. “As far as we are concerned, the former governor, being a decampee from the APC, is on his own because no one can be a judge in his own case”.

 

The meeting, therefore, called on PDP members in the zone to shun any meeting called by Prince Oyinlola and cautioned him to be mindful of bringing APC’s divide and rule culture to the PDP.

 

They said the committee set up for the purpose of reconciliation and settlement of all other sundry issues in the party in the zone was led by Engr Femi Babalola, with Chief Kolapo Ogunjobi, Barrister Ahmed Okandeji Mustapha, Chief Idowu Odeyemi and Chief Tunde Akindehin as members, while the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Prince Diran Odeyemi as the Secretary.

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