APC Youth Group Fingers PDP For Orchestrating Oluomo’s Impeachment

ABEOKUTA – The All Progressives Congress Youth Alliance for Justice (APC-YAJ) in Ogun state has condemned the Ogun state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for hailing the alleged removal of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Kunle Oluomo.

In a statement issued in Abeokuta on Saturday by its Coordinator, Suraj Fadairo, the group said, “The comments of the PDP shows that it has more than a hand in the orchestrated plot to change the leadership of the Assembly. Both the timing and the manner of alleged leadership change which happened a few days after the Supreme Court affirmed the re-election of His Excellency, Governor Dapo Abiodun (CON) goes to show that it was pre-planned.

“When the purported leadership change at the House of Assembly is viewed against the backdrop that the PDP and its defeated candidate were boasting that they would soon take over the reins of government in the state and had in fact made appointments and constituted an imaginary state executive council, then the full picture would be clearer to the discerning.

“The whole scenario of perjury and forgery has the trappings of the PDP. They are known for their crooked ways of inducement through vote-buying and money laundering.

“What is discomfiting and still a mystery is how some members of our party allowed themselves to be co-opted into the divisive and destructive politics of the PDP and its mindless minders.

“We hold that even if there were genuine grievances against the Rt. Hon. Oluomo-led leadership of the Assembly, there are channels of communication and ventilation of such within the party and government that could have been explored. But, what did we see? A few misguided members of our party in the House joining hands with the minority PDP to attempt a leadership change and thereby disrupt the cordial relationship peace being enjoyed between the executive and legislative arms of government in the state.”

The group said it noted the role played by the Minority Leader of the House of Assembly in the whole saga, adding that the comments by the PDP was in furtherance of his role and “the invidious agenda of his party”.

“We take particular notice of the conspicuous role of the Minority Leader in the whole saga and now the comments by his party, the PDP,” the statement read in part.

The APC-YAJ urged the leaders of the APC and youths to stand by the party and government.

“It is in the light of all these that we wish to urge the leadership of our party in the state and faithful party men, women and youths to rise up and stand by our party and government so that the defeated opposition (PDP) would not get through the backdoor what it could not get at the polls and the courts,” the group added.

Reacting to the APC Youth Group’s allegation, the PDP Youth leader in Ogun State, Mr. Oyejide Sunkanmi said PDP remains a democratic and responsible party which refused to be dragged into the dirty duel of APC.

Oyejide who described the APC group as faceless, urged them to desist from heating up the polity.

“The jobless individuals behind the faceless APC Youth group should go and look for something meaningful to do with their lives and stop heating the polity unnecessarily.

“The Ogun PDP is a Democratic and responsible political party. We refused to be dragged into a dirty duel with APC.

“Members of the Ogun State House of Assembly have the right to initiate impeachment proceedings against principal officers of the chamber. It is strictly their affairs.”