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Oyo Deputy Governor Rauf Olaniyan defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on June 05, 2022.

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Press Release
06/05/2022

You Can Not Steal Oyo People's Mandate From Backdoor, Resign Immediately – Oyo PDP Replies Deputy Gov

The ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), Oyo State chapter, has told the deputy governor, Engr. Rauf Aderemi Olaniyan to resign immediately since he has willfully abandoned the political party and the votes that produced him as such on the party's t ticket.

The ruling party warned against any attempt by Olaniyan and his new party to steal Oyo people's mandate through the backdoor after the last ruling party was utterly rejected at the 2019 governorship poll.

This statement follows the deputy governor's dramatic defection from the ruling PDP to one of the opposition parties in the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday.

The state Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Akeem Olatunji, in a press release on Monday morning, June 6, noted that the PDP leadership in the state, south west region, and national levels all intervened at different intervals to resolve whatever the situation fueling the suspected defection plan was to no avail.

Disappointed by comments credited to the deputy governor after officially announcing his defection from the PDP to the APC that even though he has left PDP, he still remains the deputy governor, the ruling party cautioned against what it called selfish motivation noting that such move amount to daylight robbery of the people's mandate.

The party said Olaniyan should not pretend not to know what is right next to do after leaving the political platform that sponsored him and Makinde on the t ticket if truly he has any atom of the Yoruba 'omoluabi' toga he always ascribed to himself.

"Oyo people did not vote for a PDP/APC t ticket, they voted entirely for a PDP mandate", the ruling party declared, adding that while section 40 of the constitution of Nigeria guarantees freedom of association of any person, the deputy governor ought to be enlightened by the same Constitution when it stipulated that the ticket upon which he (Olaniyan) contested the 2019 governorship election alongside Governor Seyi Makinde as a deputy was not an independent candidate ticket.

"It is only when you contest election as an independent candidate and win and then decides to move to any political party of your choice that you become the owner of the votes cast by the electorates, unfortunately for Olaniyan who wants to eat his cake and still have it.

The Oyo PDP, which is the rightful owner of the mandate will retrieve it back in no distant time using every available legal means if Olaniyan fails to humbly resign as a gentleman with his new move.

"Our position is simple and very clear on this matter and as a matter of legal implication, the votes in any election in Nigeria are to political parties, and not candidates,”. And it is on this note that the PDP as the ruling party in the state is advising the Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, not to be carried away by the lies and deceits told him by a political neophyte such as 'Mr jagba' and be bamboozled into self delusion of thinking he can be used a tool to steal Oyo people's mandate through the backdoor.

"Failure to follow this advise and adhere strictly to it from the PDP which is the legitimate owner of every single vote casted by the electorates in the 2019 governorship election, the PDP shall not hesitate to immediately deploy every constitutional means to prevent this daylight robbery.

"We're determined and resolved to retrieve the party's mandate being withheld illegally and unlawfully by the deputy Governor, Engr Rauf Olaniyan because it belongs to the people of Oyo state who have handled same to the PDP." Oyo PDP declared.

According to the ruling party's statement, the defection of Olaniyan was not surprising because his frolicking and hobnobbing with the APC over time has made his eventual move an open secret which was widely reported in the news by the media.

It was only shameful and disappointing that Olaniyan had repeatedly looked straight into the live camera and told unbridled lies multiple times by openly denying the media reports which have proved to be true after all.

The ruling PDP in Oyo in its statement recalled how the incumbent Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, went ahead to record a landslide victory at the poll despite the then Deputy Governor, some APGA of the National Assembly and other appointees of the Obiano led APGA government defecting to APC which attest to the fact that no amount of blackmail, propaganda and hang-up can change people's determination to continuity of good governance.

According to Oyo PDP, Ondo and Kogi state deputy governors made same moves prior to elections in their respective states but the state governors went to record landslide victories at the guber polls, therefore, Teslim Folarin and his likes in the Oyo APC should stop bloating in self delusion following Olaniyan's action stressing that Seyi Makinde who has earned the trust of the Oyo masses has proved the APC wrong with the unprecedented success and consistency with the achievements recorded in three years.

The party added that there is no vacancy in the Agodi Government House because the 2023 election is already a forgone issue as the people of Oyo state who are well satisfied with the people oriented policies of Makinde led PDP istration are ever ready to make a repeat statement with their votes more than 2019.

The party however, said it will not dignify Senator Teslim Folarin who it described as a political orphan in the state with a response to his hasty remarks following Olaniyan's defection to his faction of the APC stressing that Oloye Teslim Kolawole Folarin was merely trying to cash in on a seemingly trending topical issue in the state in order to gain political relevance and should focus more on his desolated party than further exposing his overbearing desperation to become governor by all means.

E-signed
Engr Akeem Olatunji II
Publicity Secretary
PDP, OyoImpeache

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Nigeria is politically paralyzed

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Oyo Deputy Governor Rauf Olaniyan defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on June 05, 2022.

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When Akeredolu deputy dump apc for pdp and refused to resign pls wetin people talk here... it is a pity that people are too forgetful or let me say people only what they want to ....

Na today?

Selfish politicians

DeleTaller:


When Akeredolu deputy dump apc for pdp and refused to resign pls wetin people talk here... it is a pity that people are too forgetful or let me say people only what they want to ....

You get time

Omor Deputy Governors have minds o. You know you're a running mate and can be removed/sacked anytime. Instead of you to remain loyal and chop your money. You decamped


Biko no quote again
What else do they do other than chop money...


What do Deputy Governor's do anywhere.
Just Glorified House Boys
Like this one wey Buhari send make e go buy Ice Cream ��

The deputy wan challenge him Oga knowing fully well that he can't win his Oga now he want to render his political journey useless

But if Tinubu win ApC primary then APC will win OYO state and probably all Yoruba states

Their asses are glued to the chair, it's actually difficult to separate.










..yet, other terrorists are warming up!

Because it's pdp, people are in

There is an antecedent to this during the OBJ Atiku walaha in 2006. When OBJ tried to remove Atiku

Atiku contested 2007 election on platform of AC while he was still VP in a PDP govt

Are they supposed to remind him sef. If you feel the party isn’t good enough, you quit the position and face your newly found party. But an average Nigerian politician will rather go to court than resign willingly.

Let him shamelessly do the needful, it's PDP's mandate.
Our politicians are all whores

Story for d gods....
Very soon e go die down

PDP is a sinking ship. They made their great mistake by collecting money from Atiku and gave him their ticket. We will meet them in front. What will happen to APC and PDP will be stronger than #ENDSARS movement.

As it is difficult to remove a sitting Governor...same it is for Deputy Governor..

Make PDP dey use water dey manage the man till the finished this tenure together

what's even my concern.

Nah by FORCE for 2 play ?

See another distraction....its this what we need now?

I’M ONLY HERE TO READ SEUNMSG COMMENT

OK

What's been holding them

I think both the PDP and the deputy governor knows what is right... But wait is it not the same thing that played out in ebonyi state when the governor defected to Apc

Gov. Makinde should work with the house of assembly and throw the traitor out of office immediately.

There is no Mr Nice guy here. Kick him out with impeachment.

Lost cause. They should wait till after next elections and stop disturbing our ears. Dirty PDP!

No laws in Nigeria says the deputy must resign his position. Obasanjo Atiku put that case to rest ever since

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

What is good for the PDP in Zamfara should be good for the PDP in Oyo State