A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state, Mr Taoheed Samorano has reacted to claims by Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, a former aspirant of the party in the 2018 gubernatorial election in the state, that he won the primary election of the party but eventually lost to Senator Ademola Adeleke because of what he described as ” The people who control the power” .
Recall that Senator Ademola Adeleke was the PDP gubernatorial candidate during the last Governorship Election in Osun state.
The Chairman of Mutual Benefit Assurance had in an interview with the Punch newspaper revealed the shocking details on why he lost to Senator Adeleke saying it was unfortunate that If one thinks one is qualified to give quality leadership to one’s people, what about the people who would disagree. The people who control power and resources in this country think the more qualified one is, the more detestable one is to them.
But, Samorano , who hails from Babanla/Agate ward 1, unit 007 in Ede South Local Government Area came hard on the insurance broker expert saying he was speaking out of illusion.
The Ede born PDP chieftain advised Ogunbiyi to rather stay off the politics instead of turning himself to an errand boy of some politicians who mean no well for the state.
Samorano said: “In the absence of denial of a schoolboy interview credited to Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, there’s the need for some clarifications before such persistent soliloquy attracts the target impossible mission of destabilizing Osun PDP.
“Let me start by advising Ogunbiyi to venture into other enterprises capable of making him independent and less subservient in his thoughts and actions. Else, he will continue to be a ready tool of cacophony in the hands of some brokers, who apparently do not wish Osun State well.
“Let me also urge Akin Ogunbiyi to purge himself of unbridled arrogance dominating his life. The kind of arrogance that blinded him to regard party delegates statutorily empowered by laws of the party to elect a governorship candidate, as mere unworthy lots who shouldn’t have been given such powers.
“The day Ogunbiyi sat at Wadata Plaza, in the presence of his Co-aspirants, questioning why his fate to become ordinary governorship candidate of Osun PDP should be left in the hands of some people he described as ordinary farmers and uneducated women, I knew the man was heading for the rocks politically.
“I think Ogunbiyi requires a diploma in practical politicking if his chain of his self-conferred Harvard and Yale degrees would be useful at all in politics. With that, he would be able to distinguish between self idolisation and local acceptability as a basic ingredient to move an inch in politics. If not, he would forever live in a mirage of being “over-qualified” over and above everybody and as such, reduce himself to occasional hallucinating impressionist after realistic failure he encountered on the field of oven-like and practical Osun Harvard school of politics in 2018.
“The earlier Ogunbiyi comes to terms with the fact of his fate of snatching Osun PDP governorship ticket, got decided by those he detested as mere uneducated delegates, the healthier for him.
“He lost that primary even after a recount of ballots at the instance of his agents at the counting cubicle. As someone rightly said, Ogunbiyi should stop persistent delusion of a victory the party delegates never gave him.
“The primary election we all recall was primarily organized by the state party apparatus who for reasons best known to them then and yes, in their own right, opted for a man loudly seen as someone on a subtle mission to cripple PDP chances at the eleventh hour.
“The venue and logistics for the exercise were exclusively preserved of the then party chairman too. The arbiters, including a then sitting state Governor, who only had a day mandate to supervise the process of the verdict by the delegates were also non-residents of the state.
“So, Ogunbiyi should accept the people’s verdict whenever he is faced with the democratic process of decision making, unless he kick-starts and succeeds in a process of changing the laws of the party to exchange party delegates for his Yale University classmates, if they ever existed, as the sole decider of Osun PDP candidates’ nomination processes.
“If our political exercise would have none of the above, expecting self idolisation to win laurels in politics smacks of an unweaned political infant still struggling to survive at the mercy of his mother’s chest.
“Ogunbiyi should go back to his political mothers, feeding him with different milk of delusion, capable of making him a permanent failure in the political field. They should educate him on basic rudiments of democratic bouts which is premised on overwhelming acceptability, buoyed by inherent pedigrees.
“Our brother should stop acting and laying credence to the school of thought, who believed he was a mole sent by his enterprise jugular holders, to destabilize our great party in Osun State. The reason why he found joy in sponsoring legal encumbrances against the party including an ambush to divert the anticipated success of the party at the supreme court to our main traducers, the avowed enemies of Osun state. Worthy of note however is that all the contemptuous moves have been confined to the dustbin of history in lieu of the legal fisticuffs including the highest court in the land.
“Deriding other prospective competitors in the party who had once got you felled mainly on the basis of his popularity, acceptability and hard work, more so, at a time all known party machinery was oiled and rolled out in your favour, can only subject you to questions on what Yale and Harvard school walls have impacted on you in terms of common sense.
“I also urge Osun PDP leadership to quickly call Akin Ogunbiyi to order. In as much as he still parades himself as a member of this party, he should not be allowed any more space or indulgence to polarise the party any further. Breaking the code of ethics of the party should not be imposed on our great party even if that was Ogunbiyi’s main course of study at Harvard.
“Condoning such uncouth utterances as seen in his purported interview is not only condemnable but a sumptuous invitation to lawlessness, as well as working to answer, the initial sinister motive orchestrated with Ogunbiyi throwing his hat into the ring, few weeks to the 2018 governorship primaries of the party in the state”
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