Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola Is Promoting Illegality In Our Party – PDP

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has come out to say that it knows nothing about any reconciliation committee headed by former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.

The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Raphael Adeyanju, recently revealed this via a statement, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the state is not part of any meeting in Ado Ekiti on Saturday, by the committee, and it is funny that someone of Prince Oyinlola’s standing will be promoting factions and illegality in PDP.

He added that concerted efforts are being made to resolve issues among the stakeholders, and he expects a resolution very soon.

His words “Our attention has been drawn to a meeting scheduled for Saturday in Ado Ekiti by Prince Oyinlola under the guise of a non-existing reconciliation committee.”

“We wish to state that the State Working Committee (SWC) of the PDP in Ekiti State is not aware of such meeting.”

“Therefore, all members of the PDP in Ekiti State are enjoined to shun the meeting as it is obviously another of the plots by Prince Oyinlola and his paymaster in Ibadan, Oyo State to cause division in the party.”

“Here in Ekiti, concerted efforts are being made to resolve issues among the stakeholders and as a follow up to the meeting held in Abuja on Monday, another meeting will be held in Lagos on Monday, next week.”

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every Presidential election between 1999 and 2011, and was until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic although in some cases, amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. Currently, PDP controls 14 states out of 36 states in Nigeria.

In 1998 the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria norminated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May, 1999.

The longtime slogan of the People’s Democratic Party has been “Power to the people”. During the party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 21 May 2016, David Mark, a former President of the Senate of Nigeria, introduced “Change the change” as the party’s campaign slogan for the 2019 general elections.