The Osun State chapter of the Accord Party has debunked the reports that its members dumped the party in the state, AMILOADED reports.
The secretary of the party, Alhaji Nasiru Bolarinwa, in a statement on Tuesday, stated that the insinuations that one of the party’s senatorial leaders decamped to the PDP in Osogbo was untrue and should be disregarded.
Bolarinwa said, “No right thinking member of Accord will leave the party now when its Governorship candidate, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi is set for victory in the July 16th gubernatorial election.”
He explained that one Chief Lekan Kajola who claimed to have decamped from Accord was the party’s former senatorial chairman who was expelled for various offences in July 2020.
He added that Kajola’s trouble started since 2018 when the leaders of Accord in the 10 local governments of Osun Central District listed seven offences against him and thereafter passed a vote of no confidence against him.
“After carrying out investigations about his activities, he was found guilty and suspended on May 2020 by Osogbo Chapter of his party and was finally expelled by the State Executive Council of the party on July 2020,” Bolarinwa stated.
He listed some of his offences to include “insubordination, masquerading and anti-party and that by virtue of Sections 4 and 5 of the party’s constitution, the expulsion order was carried and a letter dated July 10 and signed by Barrister Yemi Ajibola conveyed the message to him.”
“We understand that PDP is desperate to get people under its tattered umbrella and we also know that the party’s governorship candidate, Ademola Adeleke has boasted of buying everybody in the state with naira, dollars, pounds and euros.
“But I need to tell the PDP that the present product you bought is a bad one. He has since been rejected by Accord and we have shown him the way out since two years ago. Anyone is free to go and make money in PDP but leave Accord alone,” the statement partly read.
Bolarinwa added that Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi and his deputy were “working hard to win the forthcoming polls”, adding that the people of the state “are enthusiastically waiting to cast their votes for him on July 16th, 2022”.
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