The newly elected Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun , Tunde Oladunjoye, on Tuesday, insisted that the party held no parallel state congress on Saturday.
Oladunjoye described the purported parallel congress conducted by the immediate past governor of the state, Ibikunle Amosun and his loyalists as nothing but a “charade” and a mere gathering of “family and friends.”
The party spokesman stated this when he featured on a Rockcity FM radio programme, tagged, “Citizens’ Forum”which was monitored in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
He accused Amosun and his followers of planning to cause chaos and throw the state into anarchy by heating up the polity.
According to him, Amosun and his followers are not loyal members of the party but a group of impostors who are only hell-bent on disrupting the peace which the state has been enjoying since the commencement of the Dapo Abiodun administration.
Oladunjoye argued that the only authentic executives of the party at ward, local government and state levels were those whose elections were conducted by the seven-member congress committee sent from the APC national headquarters in Abuja.
He noted that the elections was monitored by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) led by the Ogun State Resident Electoral Commissioner.
The publicity secretary maintained that the purported parallel congress staged by Amosun’s supporters was neither sanctioned by the national leadership of the party nor monitored by INEC officials.
He, therefore, called on the national body of the party to deal decisively with the impostors who had violated the party’s constitution by engaging in anti-party activities.
“If you want to be relevant in a party, if you want to be the leader in a party, it is not by force, you have to lobby, you have to persuade, you have to follow the rules and regulations of that party.
“For a parallel exco to exist, that means you would have had the committee sent from Abuja split into two when they got to Ogun State or maybe the national body sent two committees to Ogun state and that was not the case in this matter.
“In political party structure, there are different hierarchies. We had ward congresses in the 236 wards, it was at these ward congresses that five delegates were elected per ward.
“And after the ward congresses, there was in-built party mechanism that whoever disagrees with that congress will go to an appeal,” he said.
Oladunjoye urged the people of the state to appeal to the former governor and his followers, “we don’t want to go back into an era of violence in Ogun state, we don’t want the polity to be heated up.”
He, however, said the ruling APC and the administration of Gov. Abiodun remained committed to delivering on their campaign promises to the people and would not be distracted by the shenanigans of Amosun and his followers.
