The former Chairman of the defunct Zenith Labour Party in Oyo State, Comrade Wole Abisoye has described members of a faction of the party that have chosen to work with the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has political jobbers saying there is no way a true follower of Senator Rashidi Ladoja will join a political party which he alleged is sponsoring insecurity in the Country.
Featuring on BOTTOM LINE – a political programme on IBR 92.5fm Ibadan anchored by Aanuoluwapo Omorinde, Abisoye said the revelation of top members of the broom party is enough for a discerning mind to understand that the high level of insecurity in the country is the handiwork of the ruling party wondering why some of his colleagues have chosen the APC as their destination.
Reacting to a question on why he led some members of the party to the People’s Democratic Party when the Zenith Labour Party had accused Governor Seyi Makinde of not fulfilling the promise he made with the party, Abisoye revealed that he was not part of those that negotiated with the Governor before the 2019 general elections even as the party Chairman but denied the allegation that the Governor reneged on some of the promises he made with the ZLP.
“Even as the Chairman of the party, I was never carried along at that time but I never complained because of my kind of politics. But it is not true that Governor Makinde did not fulfill his agreement. ZLP was given two Commissioners and two Special Advisers.
He however noted that the believe of members of the party was that the ZLP lost out because Barrister Sharafadeen Alli refused the offer of the governor to serve in his Advisory Council.
“At a meeting, a member of the party stood up and challenged Sharafadeen Alli saying he is the course of their suffering in the ZLP because had he not refused the Advisory Council membership, other things would have followed”.
The former OAU Student Union Leader turned Politician said it will not be wrong for anybody to refer to ZLP as a party that has gone into extinction in Oyo State since its membership has dissolved into PDP and APC.
“Let me tell you this and I am saying it publicly, even when we were in ZLP, funding was a problem. Nobody was funding the party. We were owing two years rent. It was Chief Ladoja that is no longer contesting any election that cleared the rent sometime ago. We had only one worker there and paying him was a big problem so, the ZLP may be said not to be in existence any longer in Oyo State.
Abisoye who described himself as a full-fledged member of the PDP said the way Governor Seyi Makinde is handling governance with human face is soothing.
