We Want Oyinlola, Others Back In Our Fold – Osun PDP

The Osun State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it is still appealing to its leaders who defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress and other parties, to return to its fold.

The Osun Central Senatorial District PDP chairman, Mr. Bunmi Jenyo, said this on Saturday in an interview with journalists at the senatorial meeting of the party held at Iresi in Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State.

Asked if the party was still considering wooing back some of its former leaders who had defected to other political parties, Jenyo said the PDP was still appealing to all of them to return to the PDP.

“We want our old members who left because of one reason or the other to come back”, he said. “We want them to come back because this is the house we laboured together to build”.

“We value our old members who have left us. We are appealing to all of them to come back. These old members we are appealing to include former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola; former chairman of the party, Mr. Fatai Akinbade and others”, Jenyo added.

The PDP also used the occasion to criticise the continuous use of caretaker committees to run the affairs of the entire 31 local government areas of the state.

Jenyo alleged that Governor Rauf Aregbesola had been constituting caretaker committees for the councils without seeking approval from the State House of Assembly, which the constitution saddled with that duty.

He, therefore, asked the governor to conduct elections to the council immediately, saying this would bring development to the people at the grass roots in the state.

Jenyo also called on the Central Bank of Nigeria to investigate how the N34.988bn bailout released to the state was spent.

The Chairman of the PDP in the state, Mr. Gani Olaoluwa, while addressing the meeting, said the party was already talking to Akinbade, who contested for the last governorship on the platform of the Labour Party to come back.