The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday dismissed the speech by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, while welcoming former governor Adebayo Alao-Akala and other defectors to the party on Saturday, as an attempt to sell a rejected party to the people of Oyo State.

Tinubu had said the defection of Alao-Akala, Teslim Folarin and others from the PDP to the APC was a sign that the APC had become the only party in the state and that the opposition had been finally buried.

But the PDP Publicity Secretary in the state, Akeem Olatunji, in a statement said the whole event and Tinubu’s statement betrayed his fear that the PDP had put its house in order.

Olatunji said, “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to a national leader of the APC, Tinubu, at a function held to welcome defectors who have joined the APC, wherein he expressed his fears indirectly over the continuous rise and dominance of the PDP in Oyo State politics and Nigeria at large.

“It is absurd that 90 per cent of the so-called defectors have ceased to be PDP members more than two years ago while the remaining 10 per cent are politicians who make their living through politics and hence the need to be in the ruling party at all times because they lack ideologies and principles.

“The PDP in Oyo State actually pities Tinubu for the unenviable job of selling a rejected Oyo APC to the electorate whereas the party hierarchy including the national chairman knows that the Oyo APC is moribund. The Saturday’s official declaration was just a charade to celebrate the birthday of Governor Abiola Ajimobi in an elaborate and wasteful manner.”

The statement noted that the absence of key party figures like the APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, and the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, showed that the event was a failure.

“It is on record that the only minister from the state, Shittu; senators Monsurat Sunmonu, and Fatai Buhari, Dapo Lam-Adesina and many other political office holders on the platform of the APC boycotted the events to the surprise of Tinubu and Governor Ajimobi; a failed attempt to give a false hope that the APC is still alive in the state when all the indices show that the APC is virtually dead and the undertakers were admitted with funfair last Saturday.”

Source:- http://www.exclusivepp.com.ng/tinubu-trying-sell-rejected-apc-oyo-people-pdp/

PDP in Oyo? Only Ladoja can save PDP in Oyo.

stonemasonn:
PDP in Oyo? Only Ladoja can save PDP in Oyo.

i dont think ladoja will contest again and most likely if he does , he will lose .
with seyi makinde movement back into pdp , he will be a very good candidate considering the fact that he is loved by youths in the state , secondly the ongoing problem between the governor and olubadan may also come as an advantage to pdp because definitely the votes of ibadan will be split.

Tinubu !!
In a saner clime this okpolo eyes should be behind bars

Nigeria is the only country that celebrate a criminal .

Oyo should not cry when Ladoja is made a minister in PDP gov

Keneking:
Oyo should not cry when Ladoja is made a minister in PDP gov

ladoja alone cannot deliver oyo state
he isnt liked by the political class that much

It'll not be a surprise if APC is voted back to power Nigeria is a hell hole.

Paperwhite:
It'll not be a surprise if APC is voted back to power Nigeria is a hell hole.

very very possible, if the opposition doesn't get their acts right quickly

Pdp is a HOPELESS, LOOTING, THIEVING Party

Akeem Olatunji? One of the idiots that Wike rubbbished in Abuja with Rivers State Money

smulti:
Tinubu !!

In a saner clime this okpolo eyes should be behind bars


Nigeria is the only country that celebrate a criminal
.

I agree with you.

ok we don hear...

.

Do we still have PDP in Oyo?

APC is dead in Oyo... Ajumobi's abysmal performance nailed the party here.

Never again

In Ladoja and Makinde we believe

smulti:
Tinubu !!
In a saner clime this okpolo eyes should be behind bars
Nigeria is the only country that celebrate a criminal.

No greater truth has been said on nairaland.


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“It is on record that the only minister from the state, Shittu; senators Monsurat Sunmonu, and Fatai Buhari, Dapo Lam-Adesina and many other political office holders on the platform of the APC boycotted the events to the surprise of Tinubu and Governor Ajimobi; a failed attempt to give a false hope that the APC is still alive in the state when all the indices show that the APC is virtually dead and the undertakers were admitted with funfair last Saturday.”

Chai!see finishing

Booby88:
APC is dead in Oyo... Ajumobi's abysmal performance nailed the party here.
Never again
In Ladoja and Makinde we believe

It is up to the LAUTECH students and other youths whom Ajimobi and his daughter lambasted while forming constituted authority to save money, raise funds and mobilise others to massively vote out the All Poverty Congress, APC.
Talking on nairaland alone won't do it!
Never did!!
Never will!!!

Ajimobi and the failure of constituted authority

Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the burly but tactless governor of Oyo State has been in the news for the wrong reasons. That does not bother him apparently. And ordinarily it should not bother this writer, who not being from Oyo, could be rightly accused of being a meddlesome interloper. The purpose of this piece however is not whether this self-assigned wailing wailer has the locus to interrogate the governor’s stewardship or not. There are many eminently qualified indigenes and residents of Oyo State who are better qualified to undertake that task.
The intention here is simply to extrapolate the isolated case of Mr. Ajimobi’s recent gaffe as a template for discussing leadership failure in Nigeria and most of its constituent parts.
The phrase ‘constituted authority’ was recently foisted on the lexicon of public discourse by the garrulous governor. In fact, thanks to social media and the ubiquity of its eternal imprints, no one can reasonably deny the governor credit for the notorious connotation the phrase now commands. That is surely a remarkable achievement for a governor whose critics say his tenure in office so far has brought nothing more than disrepute to governance and disgrace to the rich heritage of the Oyo people he leads (or misleads, as it were). But as stated earlier, let us leave the full story of Ajimobi’s governance in Oyo for another day and for those better qualified to discharge that responsibility. Suffice for this piece to celebrate his sterling contribution to the vocabulary of public discourse in Nigeria. That inglorious intervention has made the governor popular albeit a butt of jokes in conversations everywhere- in students’ hostels, beer parlours, business boardrooms, corridors of power and conclaves of constituted authorities.
For those who missed the story of ‘constituted authority’ a quick reference to YouTube to view the pathetic video of Mr. Ajimobi’s bellicose interaction with protesting undergraduates of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) may be worth the while. In the clip, you find a governor debasing his otherwise esteemed office by trying too hard to assert himself over students who ironically were enjoying the humour of subtly undressing the arrogance of a magisterial overlord.

https://www.orderpaper.ng/ajimobi-failure-constituted-authority/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkoEBbVtUfo

Not worth commenting on this topic. PDP is dead.

APC is worse than PDP in all ramifications. Even the Gods as rejected it.

Tinubu is always concern about his own pocket first, not the pocket of Yoruba people

see who is talking

onatisi:

very very possible, if the opposition doesn't get their acts right quickly

Very sure sef..

Kkk

Game all the way

Seyi Makinde will surely defeat any candidate brought forward by APC and Ajimobi. Makinde is loved in oyo state and with Ladoja's backing, forget it...but Akala fvcked up big time and he will regret it

onatisi:

i dont think ladoja will contest again and most likely if he does , he will lose .
with seyi makinde movement back into pdp , he will be a very good candidate considering the fact that he is loved by youths in the state , secondly the ongoing problem between the governor and olubadan may also come as an advantage to pdp because definitely the votes of ibadan will be split.

Prophet onatisi has spoken.

Anyhoo

Tinubu still wields enormous influence over the SW (that says something).

They who are notorious for 'thinking' appear incapable of 'thinking for themselves'.

Very sad paradoxical state of affairs in the SW.