APC Chieftain, Olaosebikan congratulates new Oyo APC chairman, Alake-Adeyemo
… Commends Ibikunle for providing good leadership that restored peace, unity, dignity to party
BY STEPHEN GBADAMOSI
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan, has congratulated the newly-elected chairman of the party in the state, Chief Moses Alake-Adeyemo, and his executive members, just as he commended the Alhaji Fatai Ibikunle-led Zoning Committee for the state party congress for restoring the evasive peace and unity in the Oyo APC.
Olaosebikan, in a statement issued in Ibadan on Thursday, no
ted that with the successful completion of the ward, local government and state congresses of APC without any faction or breakaway, the Ibikunle-led team had laid a solid foundation for the desired exponential growth of the party in all the nooks and crannies of Oyo State.
According to him, winning of all elections, including the governorship and state Assembly, “ which are mostly won by another party in the last two elections,” would now be a simple task with total victory.
Olaosebikan, a former chairman of Oluyole Local Government Council, said that the development had “brought joy and happiness to the generality of members of the party and other progressive minded politicians in other parties who have immediately expressed interest in returning to the progressive fold.”
“In a clear display of selflessness, political sagacity and adroitness, Ibikunle, who has been the leader of the progressives in the state for about a decade has brought back pride and dignity last witnessed in the party about eight years ago to our great party.
“Since its formation, the APC had only organised a successful party elective congress in Oyo State as all others after the maiden congress bred disunity and fragmentation in the party. “Prior to the 2019 general elections, the congresses held in Oyo State did not yield good results, as they divided the party with many notable leaders and members defecting to the African Democratic Party (ADC).
“This subsequently resulted in the party losing the control of the state to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when Engineer Seyi Makinde unexpectedly became the governor of the state.
“Similar situations prevailed in 2023, when the party could not produce a single list of executive committees, leading to the polarisation of the party, aftermath of which made the party lose the gubernatorial election and a number of the state Assembly seats to the PDP,” he said.
Olaosebikan expressed optimism that with Chief Alake-Adeyemo as the new helmsman, APC had come to permanently take its rightful position of leadership in the Pacesetter State.
He lauded Alhaji Ibikunle and his committee, made up of Hon. Afeez Bolaji Repete, Hon. Idris Adeoye, Hon. Akeem Olatunji, Hon. Boye Sangogade and Hon. Adesoji Adedeji, “for bringing genuine peace, unity, dignity and pride back to the APC.”
