You Lied To Osun PDP Stakeholders On Your Failed Attempts To Defect Into APC - Opposition Party Slams Adeleke

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the state Governor Ademola Adeleke to retract the barefaced lies that he told some of the stakeholders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osogbo, Osun State, that he wasn't contemplating leaving the party.

It would be recalled that Governor Adeleke told an assembly of some of the stakeholders of the PDP at the Governor's Office on Thursday that he wasn't planning to leave the PDP either now or in the nearest future.

He declared the rumours about his imminent defection into the APC as a *'fake news emanating from those intimidated by our extra-ordinary performance in state leadership'.*

We wonder why Governor Adeleke could not be truthful for once by confessing to the state PDP stakeholders comprising former state Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Dr Olu Alabi, Professor Wale Oladipo, Hon Akanni Olohunwa, Mr Sunday Bisi, Rt. Hon. Adewale Egbedun, Rt. Hon Lasun Yusuf among others that his desperate attempts to defect into the potent opposition APC  were unsuccessful.

The plight of Governor Adeleke with reference to his bungled attempts to defect into the APC could be likened to a promiscuous housewife who thinks that her illicit act being perpetrated in secrecy  is not known to her neighbours.

If not so many people were not privy to how some governors in the Southwest geo-political zone and some notable millionaire industrialists were using the dead of the night to package Governor Adeleke for the failed defection exercise, his begging visit to Chief Bisi Akande in his Ibadan, Oyo State residence, is still fresh in the memory of the right-thinking members of the society.

We wonder why Governor Adeleke failed to reveal to the PDP stakeholders that the condition given to him by the leadership of the ruling party at the national level was that he would have to queue up and that he could not be given an automatic ticket for the governorship election under the APC.

Was Governor Adeleke aware that part of the reasons he was refused the defection into the PDP was traceable to the potency of prayers of the members of the APC who saw the arrangement as a daylight political robbery which was not worth giving any iota of consideration?

If Governor Adeleke is cocksure  that he is popular, why touting the option of defecting into the APC to fly the governorship flag of the party? Could it be the desolate state of his so-called ruling party that was responsible for his initial plan to defect into the APC?

It is those viewing the PDP-produced governor from outside the state that are ascribing the attribute of popularity to him when in actual fact his party witnesses defection of its members into the leading opposition party almost on daily basis.

It is a misnomer for Governor Adeleke to have an exaggerated notion of his political popularity, influence and acceptability when his shortcomings are constantly showing a red sign having served the state within the limit of his unenviable capacity for three years running which has proved to be a monumental disaster to the overall development of the state.

We congratulate the forward-looking members and supporters of our party that God Almighty was magnanimous enough to have divinely blocked the aspired defection of Governor Adeleke into our party which could have caused untold friction, lack of cohesion, disunity and schisms of an unimaginable dimension.

Come to think of it, which added value would the embattled Governor Adeleke have brought to our party if not the verifiable disintegration which has been the undoing of the PDP right from the ward to the Federal level as it is being witnessed in the political theatre of the nation?

It was visible to the blind, audible to the deaf and tangible to the morons that Governor Adeleke made series of efforts to defect into our party without luck. Why feeding the PDP stakeholders blatant lies? Whoever believes the lies told by the embattled governor in this regard can believe any hogwash.

We, as a party, are cautioning Governor Adeleke to retract the lies told the innocent stakeholders of the Osun State chapter of the PDP or risks being exposed to the public domain a comprehensive information on his copious failed attempts to defect into our party.

e-SIGNED:

Mogaji KOLA OLABISI,                                             Osun State APC Director of Media and Information.