The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has responded to the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s claims of welcoming defectors from the PDP, calling it a “desperate attempt” to shore up the APC’s dwindling fortunes.
This was revealed in a press statement issued by Hon. Sunday Bisi, Osun State PDP Chairman, the party expressed “vindictive satisfaction” over its long-held stance against individuals it identified as “parasites” and “agents of invasive subjugation” who collaborated with enemies of Osun State to undermine the vision of the state’s founding fathers.
The PDP dismissed the defection claims, stating that individuals like Mr. Dotun Babayemi and Akin Ogunbiyi were never members of the party and had ceased to be so before the 2022 governorship election. The party also mocked the APC for claiming that octogenarian Shuaibu Oyedokun, who had no record of performance at his electoral unit, was a significant defection.
The PDP described the APC’s action as a “soap opera of Self Pleasuring” and a “terminal symptom of APC’s life-limiting illness.” The party assured Osun people that the “train of victory” recorded in recent elections remains intact and that Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke is unperturbed by the APC’s “distractive antics.”
The PDP believe the inglorious antecedents of the disillusioned dramatis personae involved in the soap opera of Self Pleasuring are in public court. Such individuals like Mr Dotun Babayemi and his ilk have since been put in their place long before now and have ceased to be members of our party right before the 2022 governorship election.
We however understand that Osun PDP’s image stock is so huge that impressionists like Babayemi must clinge onto, deceiving themselves as decamping from the ruling party.
We hold that self help may not be unusual with desperate politicians but self deceit is a sign of ominous trouble! Tagging people you know you have worked with to fight the PDP, right when the party was in opposition, as defectors from the same party that floored you inside out, is simply put, a terminal symptom of APC s life-limiting illness.
Or is it not self deceit taken too far to say that one Akin Ogunbiyi who was sponsored to contest the last governorship election in the state on the banner of Accord Party is also defecting from the PDP? Someone the PDP was confident enough to refuse his reabsorption into the the party after his failed Accord voyage?
The same Ogunbiyi whose electoral worth was put to test with Accord and scored paltry 4 thousand votes or thereabouts including those of his polling agents?
Or the octogenarian Shuaibu Oyedokun who has been a liability to himself, living on samaritan gestures of the PDP over the years based on his age? A man who had no record of performance at his electoral unit, let alone his community? That is not a character to be missed by a strong political institution like the PDP.
Osun people are assured that the PDP train of victory recorded in recent elections in Osun State, is indivisibly intact. The people’s Governor, Asiwaju Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke is also unperturbed by the distractive antics of the never do wells, whose mission to end Osun State economically has since been defeated.
All developmental plans put in place by his Excellency, the Executive Governor would continue to form the fulcrum of the PDP administration and will be executed religiously for the wellbeing of all and sundry.