The Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elders’ caucus has called on the national headquarters of the party to allow its suspended chairman, Soji Adagunodo to complete his tenure.
This was contained in a statement made available to POLITICS NIGERIA on Wednesday and signed by the Deputy Chairman of Ijesaland PDP Elders, Dele Faseru.
The elders said they held a meeting and deliberated extensively on the issues raised in the letter to Adagundo to step aside over allegations of malfeasance, maladministration, and anti-party activities.
The leaders said the “toxic situation requires careful management so we will not fall foul political profligacy and tactlessness” based on the fact that Mr Adagunodo has served the party diligently since the assumption of office on 25th of March, 2018 with strings of electoral successes.
“In 2017, our party defeated the then sitting Governor and a fellow Ijesa compatriot at the Osun West Senatorial Bye-election of July 8th, 2017 which produced Senator Ademola Adeleke. The results of the 2018 Gubernatorial election under his watch are in the public domain as a testimonial of remarkable efforts that were thwarted by the judicial technicalities of the Appellate and Supreme courts.
“It is also important to let you know that the leadership of our party under Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo took our party from a deficit electoral defeat of over 100,000 votes when PDP was in power at the centre with all the machinery of government to a winning political party against the incumbent APC government with over 300 votes before that inglorious declaration of inconclusiveness during the governorship polls of September 22nd, 2018, the rest is history.
“Subsequently, during the 2019 General Elections, the Senatorial Candidate of the PDP (Senator Adenigba Fadahunsi) was returned victorious. The Federal House of Representatives from his home Federal constituency, Hon. Oluwole Oke was also returned. To cap it all, one of the three PDP House of Assembly members in the State is from Obokun State Constituency. Hon. Soji Adagunodo hails from all these three political strongholds”.
