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OGUN STATE PDP
WHY IT IS PRUDENT TO RECONCILE.

In accounting, reconciliation is the process of ensuring that two sets of records are in agreement. Reconciliation is used to ensure that the money leaving an account matches the actual money spent.
This is done to ensure that the balances match at the end of a particular accounting period.

After the Era of our Leader, Buruji Kasamu of Blessed memory. It is my personal belief, as a stakeholder in the PDP family, that reconciliation is the only way out of where we find ourselves.

I have long realised that Ogun State "PDP account's" is not balance, What has been our gains as compared to our losses, you will agree with me that our losses has been greater than our gains or profits.

There has never been gains in division, a house divided against itself, they say will never stand. In the last three elections withing Ogun state, perhaps out of fear, division or favour we did not field our best candidates to lead us to victory, sentiments was used in our selections and we followed blindly without questions. Often I wondered if we are Educatetd, I purzeled why we are not using our God given talents to question and develop the leadership structure, so we can be lead aright.

Our late leader Buruji, led us in the best possible way he knew, we won all our Opponents in the court of law till the end of his life. He was on war front and he fought gallantly, Buruji was a Winner till the end of his time.

However this is a new beginning for us, we are to use all the good things Buruji built and to do away with the *"not good enough thing"* he did, as he was also human, it will be foolhardy for anyone to expect him to be perfect.

One can not fault his followers for believing in him, the fighting spirit in him is something to admire. Righly or wrongly, he fought against what he believed was injustices. He fought against OGD, Baba Obasanjo, and at the End Ladi Adebutu. Against all odds he retained the Party Structure in Ogun State, *" The power"* he left for his followers. And now everyone else his jostling jostling for.

Even with the above *"Power"* or structure , what had this brought to us as loyal members of the PDP and Buruji group?

We did not Win Governorship, we never controled the majority in the state house, we never control the majority to win decisively in our various constituencies. We can't then lay claim to winning the arguments, but loosing all our customers.

The group won all the cases to be in control of the party structure, but could not win Elections. More like winning the battle but loosing the war.

To me something is wrong with that system, as an Academician in Politics, I believed we must change our orientations. We should not continue in the part of self distraction, a path that spells death to our dear party.

In my opinion it is time to make the move to compromise, a time to reconcile with other groups. And that is the path the Buruji Progressive wing lead by PSS is following, and this is where I stand.

To compromise is to make a deal between different PDP groups, where each party gives up part of their demands. ... Margalit calls these *"rotten compromises,"* In democratic politics. However great challenges of contemporary democracy has become more difficult in the era of OGD, BURUJI and Now Ladi Adebutu, the permanent campaign of division for over a decade, must change.
This is what we need to do in my own opinion, not for personal gains, but for us all, so we can be the winning Party again.

Dr. Babalola Adesanya-Shine.