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Osun PDP Leaders Besiege Oyinlola’s Okuku House, Plead For His Forgiveness

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7 years ago

October 3, 2017

By Ayobami Agboola

The Osun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday apologized to its former National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola for being removed by the national leadership of the party.

Osun PDP Leaders Prostrating For Oyinlola At His Okuku Country Home

The chairman of the PDP caretaker committee in Osun state, Alhaji Sarafadeen Ishola led a delegation of chieftains of the party to Oyinlola at his country home in Okuku where they delivered the party’s apology and asked for the forgiveness of the former Osun state governor.

CityMirrorNews recalls that Oyinlola was sometimes in ‎2013 removed as the National Secretary of the PDP while his Deputy, Chief Onwe Solomon Onwe was installed to replace him by the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur’s led PDP then.

Meanwhile, the Osun PDP caretaker chairman said the visit was not to lure Oyinlola back to the party but to apologize to him for the injustice meted to him by the party.

“The decision to be member of any party is a personal one and we respect that decision of yours. Our mission is to come and ask for forgiveness, that you forgive us in your heart and we admit that what happened to you was an injustice and an error.” Sarafadeen Ali appealed.‎

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While responding, Oyinlola said he cherished the visit and explained that he felt concerned that issues went the way they went during his last days in the PDP despite all his efforts to ensure the unity of the party was protected.

He said the reign of indiscipline and impunity within the PDP led to his exit and the series of crises within the party as well as the division that later resulted in the electoral setback for the party.

“I want to say that I did everything humanly possible to make sure that the division did not come from me. I went to the extent of writing to the leadership of the party, the then Mr. President to draw his attention to the issues that were eroding on the unity of the party but it seemed my own sincerity about the whole issues were misconstrued”, Oyinlola clarified‎.

The former governor who said he felt vindicated by the visit and the apologies tendered, maintained that politicians must rub minds together and exploit all avenues of peaceful resolution of conflicts.

According to him, “I want to take a recourse to the Bible which says ‘ if your brother transgesses, rebuke him; if he repents, forgive him. it is on that score that I want to say I have forgiven and forgotten all that was done to me.”

He, however, said he was happy that the PDP chieftains said they respected his decision to choose the party he wished to belong to while he used the occasion to also introduce some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state who joined him to receive them.

Oyinlola advised politicians in the country to always seek for the progress of the country, irrespective of the side of the political divides they belonged.

“Political affiliation of politicians may differ but the delivery of democracy dividends to the people must be important to them”, he advocated

Osun PDP Leaders Prostrating For Oyinlola At His Okuku Country Home