The leader of the Elders Forum of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State and former deputy governor of
the state, Alhaji Ali Olanusi has disclosed that days after the reconciliation
meeting by the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Governor
Oluwarotimi Akeredolu is yet to honour the agreement reached at the meeting.
According to Olanusi who is a
member of APC Board of Trustees, BoT, part of the resolutions reached at the
South-West leaders’ meeting which was held last week Tuesday was for the
dissolution of the Ade Adetimehin led state working committee of the party.
Olanusi who spoke in Akure, the
Ondo State capital on Thursday during the group’s meeting also revealed that
the last week Tuesday’s peace meeting by South-West leaders of the party was
never for the second term ambition of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.
Tinubu had on Tuesday last week
led other leaders of the party within the South West region to the State in a
move to reconcile warring and aggrieved factions of the party.
The APC chieftain maintained that
the meeting centred on the unity and progress of the party in the state and not
the second term ambition of Akeredolu .
“We want to appreciate leaders of
our party in the South West for calling last week’s meeting. What we discussed
was that our party most move ahead in unity and progress.
“The leaders agreed with us that
for the party to achieve the needed unity, the state executives of the party
should be dissolved and caretaker committee be set up to run the party in the
state pending the time a new congress.
“They never contested our
position and they said they will look into it. We are waiting for the national
headquarters of APC to do the needful because those leaders don’t have the
power to dissolve party executives. We told them we have lost confidence in the
Ade Adetimehin led state executives and they agreed with us.
“However, we want to place on
record that Tinubu, Baba Akande and others did not call the meeting for second
ambition of Akeredolu. In fact, nobody discussed any political ambition,
knowing full well the party is still in crisis.
Meanwhile, a former Commissioner
for Regional Integration in Osun State, Mr. Bola Ilori said window of peace had
been opened with the meeting, adding that both parties must keep to the
agreement.
“We must act as one political
party, that is the only way our party can win. If we are divided we will all
lose together. Our intention is to retain power in Ondo state and for us to do
that we must have unity of purpose.
“If we are still fighting,
Akeredolu cannot win, even any other person. We need ourselves. Nobody
mentioned the second term of Akeredolu in the meeting. What we need now is one
united party and both parties agreed to that. Nobody preached second term,” he
said.
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