The former chairman of the defunct Zenith Labour Party, ZLP in Oyo State, Wole Abisoye has revealed how Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, fulfilled agreement with the party.
OYOINSIGHT.COM had reported how members of the ZLP, including the governorship candidate of the party, Sharafadeen Alli, dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Featuring on BOTTOM LINE – a political programme on IBR 92.5fm Ibadan anchored by Aanuoluwapo Omorinde, and monitored by OYOINSIGHT.Com, Abisoye said the revelation of top members of the broom party is enough for a discerning mind to understand that the high level of insecurity in the country is the handiwork of the ruling party wondering why some of his colleagues have chosen the APC as their destination.
He added that the commissioner for land and housing, Abiodun Abdu-Raheem was one of the commissioner-nominees, adding that the second nominee, Waheed Akanbi, a former finance commissioner in the administration of former governor Rashidi Ladoja could not make the list because they could not resolve issue bothering on his local government of origin.
OYOINSIGHT.COM understands that Alanbi, who hails from Ibadan North LGA was asked to claim Akinyele LGA, where his ancestral village is located before he could be given the slot.
Abisoye described Alli and other members of the ZLP who have chosen to work with the APC in Oyo State has political jobbers saying there is no way a true follower of Senator Rashidi Ladoja will join a political party which he alleged is sponsoring insecurity in the Country.
Reacting to a question on why he led some members of the party to the People’s Democratic Party when the Zenith Labour Party had accused Governor Seyi Makinde of not fulfilling the promise he made with the party, Abisoye revealed that he was not part of those that negotiated with the Governor before the 2019 general elections even as the party Chairman but denied the allegation that the Governor reneged on some of the promises he made with the ZLP.
“Even as the Chairman of the party, I was never carried along at that time but I never complained because of my kind of politics. But it is not true that Governor Makinde did not fulfill his agreement. ZLP was given two Commissioners and two Special Advisers.
He however noted that the believe of members of the party was that that the ZLP lost out because Barrister Sharafadeen Alli refused the offer of the governor to serve in his Advisory Council.
“At a meeting, a member of the party stood up and challenged Sharafadeen Alli saying he is the cause of their suffering in the ZLP because had he not refused the Advisory Council membership, other things would have followed”.
The former OAU Student Union Leader turned Politician said it will not be wrong for anybody to refer to ZLP as a party that has gone into extinction in Oyo State since its membership has dissolved into PDP and APC.
“Let me tell you this and I am saying it publicly, even when we were in ZLP, funding was a problem. Nobody was funding the party. We were owing two years rent. It was Chief Ladoja that is no longer contesting any election that cleared the rent sometime ago. We had only one worker there and paying him was a big problem so, the ZLP may be said not to be in existence any longer in Oyo State.
Abisoye who described himself as a full-fledged member of the PDP said the way Governor Seyi Makinde is handling governance with human face is soothing.
