The Osun Progressives (TOP) has said its ready for the All Progressives Congress, APC Ward Congress if there will be fairness and justice by the National Caretaker committee in Osun.
The Chairman, Reverend Adelowo Adebiyi stated this on Friday, while addressing journalists at a press conference held in Osogbo,
Adebiyi accused Governor Gboyaga Oyetola’s group, IleriOluwa of camping the Ward Congress committee members send to Osun .
Adebiyi said TOP observed that
the governor’s camp is scared of contesting due to mismanagement of the party under the watch of the current leadership in the state.
According to Adebiyi, “they know that they are incapable of winning popular votes in fair and free contest hence the employment of tactics to have a hitch free democratic Congress held.
“We have it on good authority that the Ward Congress Committee appointed by the National Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning committee arrived Osogbo this morning.
“They are said to have been in the Government house with Governor Gboyega Oyetola since. They are circumventing the popular rule of democratic engagement by not allowing the committees to interact with stakeholders in consequent with how things will go tomorrow.
“We note that consensus which they desired is no stranger to us as true Progressives but its definition is not that a viewpoint of one of many stakeholders will be taken that of everyone.
“Consensus is an agreement which is a product of discussion among stakeholders. Nobody claps with one hand. APC is a political party which emerged as an aggregation of different interests and viewpoints. No one can force his/her views on others.
“We at the Osun Progressives (TOP) will not accept that. It is in this regard that we once more draw the attention of Governor Mai Mala Buni’s committee to the ungracious insults been passed on democratic tenets by the Governor Oyetola’s group, IleriOluwa and indeed the intelligence of party members in Osun.
“We hope the Ward Congress committee members just arriving Osogbo are pious of sterling character who exercise fairness to all stakeholders within the party.” he said
