Without restructuring, 2023 polls‘ll be futile — Oyinlola
The former military administrator of Lagos State and former National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in an interview with Vanguard, gave insight on how he and others approached former President Olusegun Obasanjo to support President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. He also spoke on his regrets for leaving PDP for APC, the level of insecurity in the country, Amotekun and other burning national issues.
If I know it is not just and right, you will not find me there. And to start with, nobody asked me. At least, you should have asked me first and let me decline. The suspicion was that ‘he will not support it; he is Obasanjo’s boy; he is Babangida’s boy’. A boy at sixty-something. Then out of the blues, a court judgement said I was not the secretary, based on what they said, that I was not duly nominated by the South West. That was an absolutely wrong premise which had no bearing with the process of electing the national secretary.
I was not notified of my offence, to start with. Some of them who had some legal brain pointed out to them that ‘what that man is saying is right’. I didn’t know when he joined us that he was now heading a disciplinary panel. And finally, by the dictates of the contents of our constitution, as the national secretary, I could only be tried by NEC, not any other organ of the party.
Instead of calling us, Bamanga Tukur said those governors who were trying to leave were of no electoral value. Serving governors in the states? At the end of the day, because Bamanga and his team were too full of themselves and would not retrace their steps, a decision was taken that we should move.And the greatest blow which I know hit President Jonathan was the manner in which we moved.
My expectation was that besides being a former head of state, having ruled the country militarily, he had the privilege of having many living former heads of state and presidents that could be a source of information and counseling for him. Yakubu Gowon is there. IBB is there. Obasanjo is there. Abdulsalami Abubakar is there. He could consult with any of these men at any given time. Nobody has monopoly of knowledge.
It must be noted that without it, the exercise of election in 2023 will be a futility. It is germane to the outcome of that election. That’s all.
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