A group known as the Unity Forum in the Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC), has dismissed a statement by the Akin Oke-led state Executive Council ratifying the Akala-led Council of Elders.
In a statement by the Chairman of the Forum, Alhaji Abu Gbadamosi, former Deputy Governor Moses Alake Adeyemo, Senator Soji Akanbi, Senator Ayo Adeseun and Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, disclosed that the Akala Council of Elders is a contraption of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elements in the party.
In the statement, the forum further disclosed that the PDP elements saw the meeting at Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Ibadan home as an opportunity to foist a PDP leadership on the progressives’ party.
According to the statement, “We stated clearly in our response to the charade in Governor Fayemi’s house that the meeting deviated from the mandate of the National Reconciliation Committee directing it to choose three members from each of the two contending groups in the party to supervise the coming registration of members in the party.
