Tunde Oyekola, Osogbo
Friday, May 29, 2009

TWO serving governors, Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and his Ekiti State counterpart, Mr. Segun Oni; as well as a former governor in Oyo State, Dr. Omololu Olunloyo, on Thursday said there was no way for a former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, to capture the South West states, saying his “expansionist prog-ramme in the zone will fail.”

The trio, who said this in Osogbo, at the presentation of a book entitled Dissonant Harmonies: Controversies in Osun State Politics, written by the Special Adviser to the Osun State Governor on Media, Mr. Lasisi Olagunju, said the South West people would not allow Tinubu to impose his “cabal” on them.

Oyinlola, in his speech, accused Tinubu of introducing violence into the South West states, in his attempt to impose his men on the people through the Action Congress (AC).

“The recent political violence witnessed in the South West and lately, Osun and Ekiti states, was introduced by Tinubu and the AC from Lagos, in an attempt to impose his men on the people of the zone so as to become the leader in the zone,” Oyinlola said.

He then commended his adviser, Olagunju, for bringing out facts on the violence perpetrated by the Action Congress in the state, saying “issues treated in the books such as Oroki Day crisis, the violence that greeted the April 14, 2007 election and the bomb blast at the government secretariat, Abere in Osogbo, needed to be recorded as against the propaganda being dished out from Lagos by the Action Congress (AC)”.

Former governor of old Oyo State, Dr. Olunloyo, who was the chairman of the occasion, said Tinubu used some of the people in the Action Congress (AC) to propagate his expansionist programme.

“Ekiti re-run election was a do-or-die (Oba-sanjo-like) conflict bet-ween AC and PDP or between Fayemi and Oni and that actually Tinubu was the physical and financial force behind Fayemi only using the latter for his expansionist policy enroute becoming leader of the Yoruba,” he added.

The book captures all the noise made by Tinubu following attempt by the Action Congress to rule the state which has failed, he added. Also speaking at the book launch, Mr. Segun Oni alleged that the violence being perpetrated in his state was the “handiwork of Senator Tinubu, who recruited thugs from Lagos to cause mayhem in the state.”

In his address, Olagunju said he embarked on the book project to put the political happenings in the state in proper perspective. Present at the occasion were the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade and all first class traditional rulers in Osun State, as well as other dignitaries.

Wonder shall never end with this PDP Governors. Nigerians knows whom to believe.

You know failure when you see it, hose PDP idiots are failure. I am not suprised about all those OBA'S attending a stupid launching

TINUBU mentor FASHOLA  from his chief of staff to become Governor of Lagos state. we can now see what Lagos is like under FASHOLA.

The expanisiont is exactly what both the SW, SE, SS and the NORTH needs from AC lead regime. I wish FASOLA can go out to campaign openly in all these states and showcase what good leadership is like by using LAGOS STATE as an example and a role model.

The PDP people knows that they have failed Nigerians, it may not be a bad idea if AC or any other opposition party tries. After 10 years under PDP and NO result, then even AC or ANPP or whatever is left of the others maynot be a bad idea.

WE SHOULD DO A GODD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.

so you think Nigerians will beleive Tinubu? 8 years of nothing in Lagos!