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Oyo AD: Repositioning for 2007
Dotun Oladipo
THE race for the 2007 elections have started in a lot of states, even if underground. For the Oyo State chapter of the Alliance for Democracy, things are not different. The need to take power back from the Peoples Democratic Party-led government in the state is uppermost on the minds of the party members in the state. To achieve this, the party has gone back to the drawing board to examine the factors that led to the defeat of the Alhaji Lam Adesina controlled AD government in the state between 1999 and 2003 by the PDP led by Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja.
Top on the list of the factors that accounted for the loss to the PDP, according to party sources, was the disenchantment within the party over the conduct of some of the elders of the party in the process leading to the 2003 general elections. These included the refusal of the elders to allow the youth within the party have a say in the day-to-day running of its affairs.
Owing to this, some of the youths decided to have things their way. They formed a splinter group within the party, the Stakeholders Forum. The forum, made up of the radical elements within the party, wanted the democratisation of decisions affecting the party. Among those that started the forum were Adesina�s Chief Press Secretary, Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan, and one of the factional leaders of the party in the state now, Dr. Dotun Oyelade.
The group has made substantial progress. Despite the failure of the AD to keep all the seats it won in the 1999 elections, two members of the group emerged chairmen during the March 27, 2004 local government elections. The victory, though might be seen as inconsequential considering the fact that the state has thirty-three local gvernment areas, has awakened members of the party to the realisation that its fortunes might dip further if the cracks within the party were not memded on time.
To this end, some members of the party have started strategising on how to resolve the rift. Oyelade is at the head of this group. Letters and overutres are being made to those who are aggrieved. Meetings, it was learnt, are now being held regularly at Olaosebikan�s office in Agbowo area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The expectations of those attending the meeting, sources said, would be to ensure that the party returns to power in 2007. But how far can the party members go?
The Punch, Monday July 19, 2004
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