Oyinlola has refused to work with us - PDP complains

Leaders of the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has said former governor of the state, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has refused to work with them as they prepare for the August 9 governorship election in the state.

PRINCE BARR O. OYINLOLA THE NAT SECR OF PDP 1

The Publicity Secretary of Osun PDP, Mr. Bola Ajao, told our correspondent that Oyinlola said he would not participate in the PDP’s campaigns for its governorship candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, because of his suspension as national secretary.

Ajao said the party has gone ahead with its campaigns with Oyinlola and some of his loyalists, and was certain of certain of victory in the forthcoming election.

“According to him (Oyinlola), he is not participating in what we are doing because he was suspended by the national leadership of the party. He claims he is still the national secretary of the PDP but since there is a substantive national secretary, he is waiting for court ruling,” he said.

The Osun PDP spokesperson refuted insinuations that the recent expulsion of six leaders of the party would affect the party’s chances in the election.

Ajao said those who were expelled should have been expelled some months ago when they were suspended for anti-party activities.

He added that the expelled members, some of who have joined the All Progressives Congress, had no electoral value and that their expulsion would not affect the PDP.

He said, “Sometime ago, they were involved in a number of anti-party activities, they were suspended and because we did not want to wield the big stick anyhow, some members of the party prevailed on the party leadership not to expel them. Some of them wrote letters of apology, and they were readmitted into the party.

“In the case of the expelled members, they were suspended until we found them incorrigible, and we saw that they were not retracing their steps. We had to expel them. One of them was the secretary of the party and one was a personal assistant to Oyinlola. We were threading softly but it got to the point that it was decided that they had to be given the red card.

“There will certainly be no repercussion at all. They are feather weight, they are of no electoral consequence. We kept them until we realised that it was not good to keep enemies within the fold. It was better we expelled them. We are certain that they would not be of any value to the APC.”

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Oyinlola has refused to work with us - PDP complains

Rivers APC Apologises For Nominating Wike as Minister

 

*Laments His Insensitivity to the plight of Lecturers

Wike

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Crongress says it sincerely apologise to all Nigerians but especially to students and lecturers in the country’s tertiary institutions for presenting Chief Nyesome Wike to President Goodluck Jonathan for appointment as a Minister.

The party in on online press statement made available to NF-reports by Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Senior Special Aide on Media and Publicity to Rivers State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ikanya said:

“We sincerely apologise to all Nigerians but especially to students and lecturers in the country’s tertiary institutions for presenting Chief Nyesome Wike to President Goodluck Jonathan for appointment as a Minister. Never in our wildest imagination did we foresee that Chief Wike, the Supervising Minister of Education, would turn out to be such an unmitigated disaster. We never envisaged that he would represent Rivers State so badly and become a tool for the destruction of the country’s education sector in direct contradiction of the track record of the man that made him politically – Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who has achieved international fame for his zealous promotion of education in Rivers State.

“To put it mildly, we are shocked by the zeal with which Wike is going about his secret mission to completely ruin tertiary education in the country for reasons best known to him. He started with the universities, orchestrating a paralyzing strike that lasted some six months. While the country was yet to overcome the negative effects arising from that unfortunate development, Wike beat his own sordid record by ensuring that the country’s polytechnics and colleges of education have remained shut for even a much longer period.

“Any doubts about Wike’s wickedness became erased when he two days ago informed the House of Representatives’ Committee on Education through a representative, that the Ministry of Education under his watch made no provision for the salary arrears of striking polytechnic and college of education lecturers in the 2014 Budget of the Ministry. This, no doubt, has exposed Wike’s secret agenda to keep the country’s polytechnics and colleges of education permanently under lock and key, thus jeopardising the future of our youths – the leaders of tomorrow. It is very unfortunate that President Jonathan, an educationist, could sit idly and allow such a charlatan to ruin our education sector. To quote the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, President Jonathan and Minister Wike should remember that “there is God-o” and that He is watching.

“We wish to commend the House of Representatives’ Committee on Education for its determination to resolve the dispute between the Academic Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and the Federal Government, as well as between the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) and the FG. We urge them to finish their good work and not to rely on Wike, who prefers to be having nocturnal meetings with failed politicians in furtherance of his doomed 2015 gubernatorial ambition rather than concentrate on his job for which Rivers State sent him to Abuja”.

Rivers APC Apologises For Nominating Wike as Minister