DEAR ‘ACTORS’, YOU GRAVELY MISSED THE POINT!

By Oyejide Sunkanmi
Ogun PDP Publicity Secretary

Moments after I finished reading Mr. Segun Seriki’s response (yes, Seriki’s response, even though it has Raphael Olaosebikan’s name) to my rejoinder on the piece “Why We Acted”, I felt it was necessary to respond and situate the issues.

While I do not understand what he meant by not being “media war protagonist” among other gaffes (perhaps he meant to write “media war propagandist”), I make haste to say that no matter how hard he tries, Prince Ajibola Oluyede will not condescend to their low level. Prince Oluyede knows too well like George Bernard Shaw counselled that we should “Never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it”. My advice to you, “the actors”, if you feel very strongly and are sure that Prince Oluyede has been involved in any professional misconduct, you should report him to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as the authentic Ogun State PDP Working Committee is set to do in respect of Mrs. Bimbo Lanre-Balogun’s multiple and contradicting affidavits.

Now, to the issues. It is obvious to discerning minds that you, so-called actors, are the ones chasing shadows and leaving the real issues which are:
1) Assuming without conceding that Prince Oluyede gave a wrong advice to the former State Chairman, Samson Bamgbose and others, in respect of the Police invitation on a Friday, didn’t the then State Working Committee (SWC) hire another lawyer to represent it at the State Police Headquarters on the said date? If the Police had not been compromised from Abuja, why didn’t they wait till the following Monday? Besides, what has your “messiah” done to recover the party secretariat? How come he is no longer pre-occupied with that? Rather, he is busy scouting for people to sign fraudulent affidavits after ripping off the Adebutus!

2) Was that also why one of you, “the actors”, Mrs Bimbo Lanre-Balogun went to court to depose to an affidavit that the then Adebayo Dayo-led State Executive Committee never held congresses in Ogun State before the expiration of its tenure? So, which congress produced you, Raphael Olaosebikan, now that you are addressing yourself as “Acting State Secretary”?

3) If you are not working in cahoots with the Ladi Adebutu-Sikirulai Ogundele gang, how come you have not taken steps to rein in or reprimand Bimbo Lanre-Balogun? Why haven’t you deposed to an affidavit to counter Lanre-Balogun’s averments that congresses never held in Ogun State? Is it not a less-than-clever way to clear the way for the illegal contraption from which Ognudele emerged in July, 2020?

4) How can Mr. Seriki, who is not a member of the PDP, seek to “liberate” the party? Is it not an incontrovertible fact that he has been expelled from the PDP since July 2018? Shall we take your dogging this issue as an admission of the fact? Clearly, it is!

5) On the issue of the suspension of traitors and black legs, I make bold to say we did exactly what our late boss and icon, Senator Buruji Kashamu would have done. He never condoned indiscipline, deceit and lies, which are the stock-in-trade of these fictional “actors”. Asking if that was a sustenance of our late boss’ legacy beggars the issue because in your first article, you had questioned the rationale behind the decision to preserve Senator Kashamu’s legacies. And having “acted” in accordance with your ill-conceived conviction, you cannot rightly question the decision of those who reacted to your ignoble acts.

6) It is interesting that you have now changed from your assertion that Prince Oluyede demanded money from Pa Adebutu’s emissary (Aare Oyefeso) to say it was “allegation”. As at the last time I checked, our jurisprudence has not changed: it places the onus of proof of an allegation on he who alleges. So, Messrs Seriki and Raphael, the burden of proof of your “allegation” rests on you.

7) Without mincing words, it is clear even to the blind that we do not belong to the same State Working Committee or State Executive Committee. You, Raphael and other “actors” are now hobnobbing with the Ogundele-led gang after selling your conscience. You flock together. You strategise together, fly to Abuja together, stay in the same hotels together and attend court sessions together on the Adebutus’ bill – all in a bid to collapse the structure of your benefactor whom you claim to love so much and derisively said would love to be a life member of any social club named after him.

On the so-called fortunes that you lost during the last election, the question is: who was responsible? The man who fought gallantly and got you on the ballot and even funded you or the one who defected to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and worked against you and other candidates of the PDP? Is it not the same person that openly worked against you and other PDP candidates that all of you, the self-styled “progressives” are now running to cap-in-hand? By the way, a little bird told me that a major factor that worked against you, Raphael, is your state of origin. Is it true you are from Kwara State?

9) Without much ado, it is obvious to reasonable members of the party and the general public that you are the dissidents. You have sold out. And that is why you claimed that you and the other “actors” are purportedly being led to an imaginary “negotiation table” by someone who has ceased to be a member of the PDP and Senator Kashamu’s political family. Pray, how can a non-PDP member lead supposed members of the PDP to “negotiate” (or more appropriately sell) the structure to another non-member whose three-year contract with APM is still valid, subsisting and running?

10) Your claim that some “media war protagonist” are benefitting from a crisis is of no moment. Ordinarily, there should not be any crisis, if there is any modicum of dignity, honour and responsibility in you, “the actors”. The one you, “the actors” are groveling at his table has not repudiated his contract with APM. So, in effect, he is still in APM. One can only pity you and your ilk now that you have decided to trade away your political future because of a meal ticket. For your information, it is on record that your new principal has done everything to cajole me and other dogged and principled members of the Kashamu political family to join you, “the actors” in your inglorious act of selling out and we have REFUSED! NO MATTER THE AMOUNT OF DOLLARS, WE CANNOT BE BOUGHT OVER BY ANYONE! ON KASHAMU’S MANDATE, WE SHALL STAND. NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER! WE SHALL OVERCOME! God bless the soul of Senator Buruji Kashamu! God bless Ogun State PDP!! God bless our dear Ogun State!!!