Don’t defect to APC, Oke pleads with Oyinlola, Adeleke, others

Against the backdrop of the information that some key leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State have perfected plans to move en masse to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Honourable Oluwole Busayo Oke, a former governorship aspirant under the banner of the PDP, on Tuesday, cautioned against such step. In an apparent reaction to the alleged purported plan of by the former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and an aggrieved ex- PDP governorship aspirant, Senator Isiaka Adeleke to declare for the APC soon, Oke counseled the duo against “dumping the party, they had jointly built and nurtured.” The former federal legislator, who was the chairman on Committee on Defence in the House of Representatives, admitted that PDP was allegedly
sick, but posited that “you don’t kill a sick person but rally round him to recover from his ailment.” Reacting to the development in a statement signed by his Director of his Media and Publicity for Wole Oke Campaign Organsiation (WOCO), Barrister Yemi Giwa, Oke asserted that “there were some clear reasons, ranging from arrogance, larger than life attitude and lack of demonstration of true and meaningful reconciliation to alienate people from the party, yet, they were still not more than domestic squabbles which the party could resolve internally.” Commenting on the development, Omisore, in an email forwarded to journalists on Tuesday by his the Director of Media and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, lauded the spirit of Oke, describing him as true party man, who had shown unalloyed commitment to the cause and progress of the PDP, not only in Osun, but also in Nigeria as a whole.