No one can force me out of PDP —Oyinlola

Former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has stressed that no one could intimidate him out of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Prince Oyinlola, in a statement issued by him on Tuesday, said he had been following a subtle campaign in the media, including the social media, by some people suggesting that he had decided to leave the PDP for another party, describing it as false and a ploy by his political adversaries to push him out of the party. While saying that he was aware of those behind the campaign, Prince Oyinlola declared that suggestions that he had silently joined another party were false and too cheap, stressing that he was bold enough to take decisions and stand by them openly and with fanfare. The former governor insisted that in the face of the law, he remained the National Secretary of the PDP and that he would not be intimidated by anyone to abandon that position and the party. While reaffirming his membership of the PDP, Oyinlola said the order of the Court of Appeal which reaffirmed him as the authentic National Secretary of the party was clear and unambiguous and that the case taken
to the Supreme Court by his adversaries would be contested to the end with all powers at his disposal. “I want to use this medium to warn blackmailers and all those who believe Oyinlola can be intimidated and forced to exit the PDP to have a rethink. I am too seasoned to succumb to such cheap blackmail. I will like to remind them that as a battle-tested general, no one can intimidate me or force me to abandon my right under the law. Until the Supreme Court says otherwise, I remain the National Secretary of the PDP. I assure my adversaries that I will pursue this legal battle, which they themselves initiated, to a logical conclusion. “If, for any reason, I need to take drastic political decisions, my adversaries know me too well, I will do it openly and with spectacular public display. I ask my adversaries to stop these silly talks and be man enough to wait for the final verdict of the Supreme Court,” Oyinlola said.