PDP Convention: South-West Stakeholders Endorse Oyinlola, Ologunagba As National Officers

PDP Convention: South-West Stakeholders Endorse Oyinlola, Ologunagba As National Officers

In a last-minute effort to secure a united front in the national convention to elect national officers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stakeholders of the party from the South-West zone, have concluded negotiations on candidates to adopt as consensus options.

Sources at the consultative meeting held in Lagos on Wednesday said that the stakeholders have concluded on a former Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the Deputy Nationalnal Chairman (South) and Hon. Debo Ologunagba as the National Publicity Secretary of the party.

Oyinlola and Ologunagba are from Osun and Ondo States respectively.

Leaders of the party who organised the meeting, according to a source, were dissatisfied by the highhanded disposition of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and thereby forging a united position to checkmate the only PDP governor from the region.

The meeting, which was learnt to have been attended by state executive officials and elders from Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States decided to throw support behind Oyinlola on account that he is competent and was the first person to signify intention for the position.

In addition to that is the claim that the emergence of a former deputy governor of Oyo State, Taofeek Arapaja, was a creation of Governor Makinde.

A source who was part of the meeting said that: “majority of party officials from other states in the South-West are not happy with the way Governor Makinde has handled the affairs of the party. The PDP in the South-West is one big family and we recognise the fact that the governor is the leader of the party in his state. In the current situation where Governor Makinde is the only PDP governor from the South-West, we recognise him to be the leader of the party from the zone.