Women and youth in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo East/West state constituency on Monday staged a protest over what they called the continued dominance of members of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the scheme of things in the council areas.
At the L.A Basic School, Bola, Oyo where the PDP women and youth gathered to proffer solution to what they called politics of selfish interest, the trio of Mudasiru Isiak, Oyo East youth leader and Mumeen Adeyemo, ward 05, youth leader from Oyo west local government and Oyo west women leader, Rasidat Adekunle, said that the meeting was about the party and their continued existence. they said that the meetint
“Some minority, ADC members and hypocrites are hiding somewhere and benefiting immensely from what they didn’t work for. This has to be stopped. We must all frown at the action of some selfish leaders from another party,,ADC, by continuously cornering what belongs to us all in the name coalition.
“The councilorship slot given to ADC in the last LG election has caused irredeemable damage at his ward. We should all rise and fight the cause together. We are going for general election not local government election. It’s been over 11 years that this state constituency was ruled last by PDP and we can’t afford to lose this time around.”
“Unfortunately, these ADC people want to truncate the unreserved effort of our stakeholders in this state constituency by intending to field another aspirant from ADC claiming to be PDP. This can’t hold and we will not take it. We will not embrace any other candidate beside the chosen candidate.”
The women leader from Oyo west, Rasidat Adekunle also made it known that “it is women’s time and PDP will not tolerate unhealthy move of ADC under the pretext of coalition. Obinrin lokan.”
They eulogized “our leaders for a well job done before picking the God-chosen candidate for us. And they have made it known to all other aspirants to repose their trust in the candidate and God has been fair to us in the sense that all the aspirants have been working with the chosen candidate and working to ensure victory in the coming election.
In attendance, were leaders, all the 10 wards’ youth leaders and women leaders from both local governments are also present.
