Author: oduduwanews

The political firmament of Osun State is becoming interesting by the day as opportunists of the Peoples Democratic Party’s(PDP) extraction of different shades are jostling for attention to identify with Senator Ademola Adeleke in his futile efforts to sustain his pyrrhic victory as the declared winner in the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the state.

Of particular notice is that some of those scheming to have a taste of the dreamt controversial mandate who could not walk have been pleading to be carried shoulder high in order to be noticed by the political power brokers in the Ede Country Home of the Adeleke Dynasty.

The plight of the political schemers in the uncertain futuristic administration of the Adeleke administration could be likened to an engagement by a group of people with puerile minds who are counting their eggs before they are hatched.

It is strange that some people who are apparently thinking through their anuses have lost their thinking and comprehension capacity to acknowledge the fact that an election is a process which consists of many segments which begins at voters’ registration to the actual voting and subsequently litigation segment which begins at the election petition tribunal to the Court of Appeal and ends finally at the Supreme Court which is the highest court of record in Nigeria.

Whoever is displeased with the verdict of the Supreme Court only has the latitude to carry his appeal to God Almighty or shut his mouth permanently till eternity as there is no room for forgiveness of sins inside the grave in line with the globally accepted doctrine of Christianity
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The Osun PDP elements should tarry and endeavour to cease from behaving as being blessed with clairvoyance that will enable them have the content of the mastery of the pregnancy of a proverbial snail.

One thing that is clear is that God will not in any way allow the plundering of the State of the Virtuous by the political vampires in the appearance of pungently famished reactionary elements who have been gallivanting all over the state desperately looking for a way to sulking it to a skeletal mode or gangraping it to the point of death.

It is a shame to the entire pack of the Osun State PDP that there’s none of them who could be found capable, eligible and worthy enough to either be the caretaker chairman of the party or its spokesman as the chairman and the party’s spokesman are non-indigenes of Osun State.

My check indicates that the medical doctor- caretaker chairman of the state PDP hails from Ondo State while the spokesman is a native of Ilora in Oyo State.

This is the reason why the caretaker chairman and the spokesman who are people of less stake in Osun State do not care a jolt if the state is burned into ashes through their unguarded and inflammatory outbursts on every issue ranging from the mundane to the sublime.

Having stated all this, one thing that is crystal clear is that the community of legal practitioners owe the focused, gentle, easy-going, affable and hardworking Governor Oyetola a monumental commendation for being steadily becoming iconoclastic in enriching the knowledge of law in this country as there is every propensity for his petition to become a locus classicus in the administration of justice in this country.

Through his petition, Oyetola has been able to expose the fact that despite the hypes that accompanied the introduction of BVAS into the July 16, 2022 governorship election, the machine is not imbued with an anti-rigging quality as cases of over-voting through the electronic election device has been alleged.

It will be on record that Oyetola, through his petition, has put the Federal Government and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on their toes with his dymistification of the perfection of the BVAS.

The uninformed who have been rejoicing among the PDP members over the feeling that the national electoral umpire is on their side should be told point blank that the INEC which is also a respondent in this election petition matter is facing the most dreaded battle of its life over the integrity and reliability of the controversial BVAS machine at a time that the general elections are approaching in this country.

It is my fervent recommendation that all the principal stakeholders in the administration of justice should not, without further delay, wait till Governor Oyetola is commended and honoured for this his rare feat that would be globally beneficial in the area of dispensation of justice in the nation’s election related matters.

A large number of members of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Ekiti State have called on the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar not to reckon with the former Governor of Ekiti State, Chief Ayodele Fayose ahead of his Campaign for the 2023 election.

According to the PDP members, any attempt to allow Fayose lead the campaign committee in the state would be vehemently resisted.

At a meeting held in Ado Ekiti, the PDP members alleged that Fayose was never in support of the Atiku dream, alleging that his coming back to take up the campaign work was not out of genuine mind but for selfish reason.

The meeting had in attendance, a former Deputy Governor, Professor Olusola Kolapo, former lawmaker, Dr Samuel Omotosho, former Chairman Gbonyin Local Government, Sade Akinrinmola, former PDP State Chairman, Gboyega Oguntuase and many more too numerous to mention.

Addressing the gathering, the PDP state factional chairman, Hon. Deji Ogunsakin explained that the party could no longer tolerate the one man show style of Fayose which had continued to ruin the chances of the party.

Ogunsakin urged every member of the party to go back to their wards and units to mobilize for Atiku and Okowa ahead of the 2023 election.

Also in a remark, a former Deputy Governor of the state, Professor Olusola Kolapo said Atiku is the hope of Nigeria hence all hands must be on deck to ensure his victory during the election.

Professor Kolapo however affirmed that all members of the party must be given sense of belonging that would encourage them to give their best.

According to him, it is dangerous to place the leadership of the campaign team for Atiku on Fayose, saying the end result may be disheartening.

He said members of the party does not have confidence any more in his leadership style.

Kolapo said: “We need liberation and free hand to carry out this task ahead, we can’t continue in a system that has continued to fail us and destabilize our party.

Also, the former chairman, Ekiti State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Dr. Samuel Omotosho said Fayose had failed the party several times by virtue of his greed and selfishness hence he can no longer be trusted with an herculean task of securing victory for Atiku.

His words:” Fayose has never supported Atiku from onset, coming back to PDP now and trying to champion the crusade of Atiku is not because he is committed or passionate but because he only want to get his money.

“All candidates are asked to come back to our fold if they want to win election, because their loyalty to a one man show will not earn them victory, he concluded.