By Femi Adesola
A 2018 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship aspirant, Senator Felix Kolawole Ogunwale, has revealed that Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the former Governor of Osun state, was the major reason why he left PDP in 2009.
Senator Felix Kolawole Ogunwale stated this during a radio programme, ‘Oro Oselu’, streamed on Rave FM.
The Senator who represented Osun Central Senatorial District from 2003 to 2007 at the National Assembly, stated he left because of victimization from the then Oyinlola-led State Government and not for political benefit.
The Guber aspirant further revealed that all the efforts of the then President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, through a former Senator and Elderstatesmen, Senator Yinka Omilani, to resolve his differences with Prince Oyinlola failed as the former Governor was unwilling to meet and reconcile.
The Otunba of Iragbiji land who is popularly called “Jumokol” claimed that he was the major financier that brought PDP to Osun in 1998 but was betrayed by Governor Oyinlola. He said he went to the Senate just to defend Obasanjo, when Obasanjo was been rubbished and disrespected on the floor of the Senate.
On zoning, he maintained it was never practiced in People’s Democratic Party (PDP), that emergence of Governor Bisi Akande as the candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), prompted the PDP to opt for a candidate in the Central Senatorial District. He further advised the electorate in Osun that zoning shouldn’t be criteria in electing the next governor rather an accessible candidate that will leave his door open for everyone to come in.
When asked about his achievement, when He was a Senator, Senator Ogunwale maintained that he was the first Senator to start a road construction project, from Kelebe area in Osogbo to Iragbiji town.
He further said, some people that are intimidated by his soaring popularity, frustrated the project from the budget office in Abuja in coming in to fruition, maintaining that the bridge He constructed on the said road is still there. He also revealed that he shared his constituency project fund among his constituents, irrespective of their political affiliation.
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