The crisis over the emergence of Senator Ademola Adeleke as
the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has taken
another dimension.
This is as the members are now divided over the party’s preferred
choice of deputy governorship candidate.
Ife-born Kola Adewusi had been selected by the PDP National
Working Committee (NWC) and ratified Osun State Executive Council as the deputy
gubernatorial candidate of the party for Saturday, July 16, 2022 gubernatorial
election in the State.
However, PDP members in the four local governments in Ife land, who are loyal to Ademola Adeleke trooped out en-masse into the streets of the town protesting.
The protesting members, who had alleged that the choice of
Adewusi as deputy to Adeleke was a wrong choice, added that as a former local
government chairman, he was unfriendly and was not willing to help any party
member.
According to Lasisi Adeyeniwa, “Being a former chairman of
Ife East Local Government under the administration of Olagunsoye Oyinlola, he
was known as ‘Kosese’ because he never rendered assistance to anybody who
needed it.”
The protesting PDP members also alleged that one Prof Wale
Oladipo, who is a cousin to Adewusi and close political ally of Ademola
Adeleke, used his influence and connection to pick him as his running mate.
According to them, “Another reason for the wrong choice of
Adewusi is his religion. A Christian-Christian ticket cannot fly in Osun State.
Ademola Adeleke and Kola Adewusi are both Christians.
“The consensus and takeaway from the mass protest is that
the Ife zone has rejected the slot of deputy Governor ceded to them.”
Osun political watchers have reiterated that the choice of
Adewusi is a bad omen for the PDP in the State, which is bedeviled with too
many crisis as issue of candidature is still a subject of litigation at an Osun
High Court, which has given judicial pronouncement to the INEC and the PDP
National Secretariat to recognise Dotun Babayemi as the party’s candidate in
the State.
Babayemi is said to have the backing of the founding elders
and notable bigwigs of the PDP in the State, including Prince Olagunsoye
Oyinlola, Erelu Olusola Obada, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, Chief Tajudeen Oladipo
and many others.
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