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Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, chairman PDP Kwara State, has said the party was fighting a cause, as he urged indigenes of the state to gird their loins and develop home-grown tactics and strategies to free themselves from years of government without appropriate direction and development.
Oyedepo made this known in Ilorin when the North Central zone of PDP working committee members visited the party.
According to him, salvation cannot come from east, west, north and south, but freedom can only come within.
“In Kwara State, we are fighting a cause. There is no other state in the federation of Nigeria like Kwara State. This is a state of democratic dictatorships, a state where the future of our youths is already compromised.
“Our politics here is not ordinary as we are not just fighting for a space. When you see us struggle we are fighting oppression and therefore, we are fighting a cause,” he said.
Oyedepo told the zonal executive members led by their Chairman, Theophilus Shau Dakas that no member of PDP had decamped to the ruling party APC or to any other.
“We are very delighted to tell you that there is no notable leader of our party that decamped or defected to APC in the state. The fact that they are in government notwithstanding,” he said.
According to Oyedepo, “instead of PDP members to decamp to APC, the reverse was the case as many APC members have joined PDP after the Nov 18, 2017 local government elections.”
The Chairman cited a notable APC chieftain from Alanamu ward in Ilorin West Local Government Area, Hanafi Alabere who left the party for PDP together with his over 1, 000 supporters.
“We are in fact, waiting for the good ones among them to join the train of liberation in Kwara State. Today, the factional crisis in PDP is virtually over. We have learnt to work together so that in 2019, PDP will certainly be in government in Kwara State. Our party is waxing stronger in the state,” he added.
The chairman further said that the people of Kwara were tired of a government that consciously for 16 years worked against the interest of the people of the state.
“If they control the state resources and we still did not join them to lick their pot of soup, it means if they come to us they will pollute the party already in the heart of Kwara electorate.
“It may be difficult for outsiders to believe that we are poised for history in this state in 2019, but our victory in 2019 general election in Kwara State is a foregone conclusion by the grace of God,” he said.
In his response, Theophilus Dakas, the zonal chairman commended the party executives in the state for keeping the party intact despite the crisis and assured the executives and members of PDP in Kwara State that the zonal executives would carry the message to the national executives.
He commended the executives and members for the good performance of the party at the November 18, 2017 local government election in the state.
“If election comes, Kwara is one of the states the PDP has hope in, your performance at the local government election was very wonderful, it showed that PDP is very much on ground in Kwara,” he said.
SIKIRAT SHEHU, Ilorin
