It is Time to Move On and Restore the Glory of Osun State – Adagunodo

( Being an acceptance Speech delivered by the elected Chairman of the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Hon Soji Adagunodo on Sunday 25th March, 2018)

Members of the BOT of our great party here present

Members of the National Executive Committee and the National Working Committee of the PDP here Present

Members of the Zonal Working Committee of the PDP

Respected Leaders of our Great Party here present

Delegates to this very important State Congress

My fellow colleagues, newly elected members of the State Working Committee

Representatives of the INEC, Security Agencies and other observers

Gentlemen of the Press

Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen

Today represents a great milestone in the history of our great party in Osun state. We give all the glory to the Lord God Almighty for helping us to get over an almost two years of stagnation as a political party in a state desirous of a viable alternate political. Social and economic agenda to liberate our people from the terrible oppression which the ruling APC has subjected them to in the last 7 years and 4 months.

Today, we have to thank the National Leadership of Africa’s largest political party, the PDP, under the able, dynamic, competent and God-fearing leader, Prince Uche Secondus who is like a biblical Moses sent to deliver the Children of Israel from over 400 years of oppression and stagnation.

Prince Uche Secondus and his dynamic team of the National Working Committee and the NEC have shown that indeed at the end of every dark tunnel, there is a light.

I commend their sense of justice and fairness in breaking the logjam which has bedevilled our party in this state for long and allow the constitution of our party to reign supreme through this internal democratic process.

Let me therefore use this opportunity to extend a hand of friendship to our fellow contestants who also offered themselves for the service of our party in various positions at the Ward, Local and State levels of the PDP. We appreciate your doggedness and spirit of sportsmanship in the race. I want to assure you all that the fact that you lost in this election does not in any way mean that you are less competent to run the affairs of the party. It is only that there is always a part to play for everyone, each at a time!

In the words of Gary Johnson, “Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches”

I therefore wish to assure all our party leaders and teeming members that in line with the oath of office which I just swore to, we will always uphold the principles of fairness, truth, justice and equity in all decisions that we will be taking at all organs of the party in this state. We shall ensure that no member of the party suffers any form of discrimination on the basis of his or her previous affiliation during our crisis period. We shall, in word and in deed show that truly, there are no victors and there are no vanquished.

The immediate goal of the State Working Committee is to ensure total mobilization of all party members for the most important goal ahead of us as a Party. For the avoidance of any doubt, that goal is to democratically chase out the current band of corrupt, inept, sadistic and opportunistic government which has brought great sorrow to many families in our dear State.

The PDP will by the grace of God provide the much-needed rallying point for teachers, civil servants, doctors, farmers, students, pensioners, and all the great people of Osun state who have been impoverished by the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola administration in the last 7 and half years.

It is highly unimaginable that a governor who inherited an economically viable and socially stable state from the PDP in November 2010 has turned the state into the most heavily indebted state in Nigeria and one with the lowest sustainability index by 2018. How on earth will Osun state consistently come last in the performance chart of Senior Secondary Schools Examination in Nigeria?

This is not the Osun state envisioned by our Founding fathers but we are not surprised because these are a band of invaders who lack any understanding of the dreams and vision of the great patriots who struggled for the creation of Osun state.

We are determined therefore to rescue our state and restore light in place of darkness, hope in place of despair, joy in place of sorrow and prosperity in place of poverty.

It is in this light that we today declare the commencement of OPERATION RESTORE THE GLORY.

I invite all leaders of thought, professional groups, Labour leaders, Businessmen, Market men and Women, Traders and Artisans, Youth groups and all stakeholders in the Osun project to rally round this cause by supporting our people-friendly party to restore the stolen glory of our dear state by electing a Governor on the platform of the PDP in the September 22, 2018 elections.

For members of other political parties who have been indicating interest in joining the PDP but were constrained by the crisis of the last two years, I want to tell you that the siege is now over and our doors are wide open for you to come and join us now.

Together we can do it. Together we will do it.

Finally, let me thank the various Security agencies, the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Media in Osun state for your steadfastness in the discharge of your responsibilities.

We thank you all

SIGNED

HON. OLASOJI OLUWATUKESI ADAGUNODO

CHAIRMAN, PDP, OSUN STATE

25TH MARCH, 2018 

 

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