‘No reconciliation in Osun PDP’

Supporters of former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Osun State Senator Olasunkanmi Akinlabi have criticised the chapter for the slow pace of reconciliation, following the controversial April 5 governorship primaries.
The senator, who addressed his supporters in Osogbo, the state capital, expressed dissatisfaction with indifference of the leadership to reconciliation. He maintained that the ward congresses that preceded the primaries were severely flawed.
At the meeting, Akinlabi’s supporters complained about marginalisation anmd exclusion  from party activities.
In a communique issued at the end of the meeting, the Akinlabi Campaign Group said the party may proceed into the governorship poll as a divided house, unless urgent steps are taken to reconcile the blocs in the chapter.  The communique was signed gy its Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Ayo Aluko-Olokun.
The group also warned that the party may not succeed at the poll, unless there is peace in the chapter. However, the members said that they had no intention of defecting
from the party.
According to the group, there are outstanding issues that must be resolved, if the PDP is desirous of victory.
The statement added: “We wish to restate our commitment to the PDP while pursuing the quests for justice, fairness and internal democracy within the Party.
“The reconciliation of all the governorship aspirants and their supporters with the party should have taken place before the unveiling of the governorship candidate, if truly the party was sincere with its vouched reconciliation move.
“We wish to observe that the impression being created inadvertently is that, with or without the other governorship aspirants and their supporters.