*accuses stakeholders of engaging in blackmail, campaign of self aggrandizement
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in Oyo State on Tuesday, described the vote of no confidence passed on Governor Seyi Makinde by factional stakeholders of the party in the state as a mere joke taken too far.
Oyo PDP in a statement by its State Publicity Secretary, Engr Akeem Olatunji, accused the stakeholders of resorting ” to blackmail, while embarking on a campaign of self aggrandizement. “
According to Engineer Olatunji, the aggrieved PDP stakeholders were allegedly ” playing politics as a private business for personal gains and not for public good and the development of Oyo State”, saying, ” we want to state unequivocally that no man or woman with genuine love for his or her own household would want to destroy the family except such man or woman has started receiving gratification or personal benefits to accomplish such task”.
” Some of the members who claimed to be aggrieved are merely acting out their frustrations after their candidates in government were either redeployed due to incompetence or shown the exit door due to gross misconduct bothering on challenge of integrity”he said.
Engr Olatunji added, ” the fact remains that they will never tell you details of their supposed grievances against Governor Seyi Makinde other than the very parochial narrative of ‘unfulfilled promises’, and these spurious claims are merely aimed at currying undue and undeserved public sympathy.”
“There is no part of the world where the political landscape is devoid of mixed feelings from time to time due to presumably un-achieved expectations for whatever reason, but that is never a licence to embark on a campaign of sheer political blackmail in order to recruit unsuspecting political members into a selfish, perilous and very personal scheme to bring down a God Sent Man simply because of some unfulfilled personal and political gain, to the detriment of the masses.”
The Oyo state PDP Publicity Secretary stressed, ” let it be clearly known to the entire PDP family in Oyo State, Nigeria, and the entire world that the so called aggrieved members of our great party who ‘jokingly’ passed a vote-of-no-confidence on Governor Makinde did so without a single basis of government failure to fulfill it’s electoral promises, and have, therefore, deliberately embarked on a mission of political blackmail in their pursuit of absolute personal gratifications and benefits, regardless of the redemption
According to Engineer Olatunji , ” Governor Makinde has brought to assuage and attend to the suffering of the eight years of the past administration, which witnessed draconian, wicked, and emperor-like rule by the Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC).”
“As the party’s congress approaches, their voices against Governor Makinde and his performing government have been raised to the rooftops not because GSM has stopped performing or breaking new grounds of success in governance, but simply because they felt their personal political expectations and gratifications were denied them in the larger interest of the good people of Oyo State.
“While we acknowledge that it is in order for politicians participating in politics and political activities to have personal aspirations and political expectations for their commitment and services to the party, it is very important to stress emphatically that such personal or political aspirations and expectations must not at any point override the ultimate interest of the party and, therefore, there should never at any point be a foreclosure to healthy political engagements and communication within the party among party stakeholders and stockholders.”
The party however urged all its ” leaders, brothers and sisters who feel aggrieved for whatever reasons to sheath their swords and not further project themselves to the public in like manner as those in government between 2011–2019 who, out of sheer greed, covetousness and selfishness plunged Oyo State into the pit of backwardness, a backwardness that is now being redressed and redeemed by the Seyi Makinde administration that has been working tirelessly to return Oyo State to the path of growth and development” the PDP statement concluded.
