Hundreds of followers of a former Governor of Oyo State, late Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, on Wednesday explained the reason they are not interested to rejoin the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The ex-governor’s followers under the auspices of LAMISTS/Unity Forum while addressing journalists at Adesina’s house in Ibadan, the state capital, insisted that they were not rejoining APC, because the reasons they left the party have not been addressed.
Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Musah Abdulwasiu, while reading the communiqué before followers of the former governor and journalists, remarked that members of the group had not endorsed any of the gubernatorial candidates in the state.
Abdulwasiu, while noting that Lam Adesina followers remain one, maintained that they have nothing to do with the ruling APC in the state and the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
The group said, “Descendants of Lamidi Adesina Political and Leadership College under the aegis of Lamists and Unity Forum at their reunion meeting which was held at Lam Adesina’s Hall, Felele on Wednesday, 5th March, 2019 reacted to salient issues as affecting the legacy of the late respected political icon, state polity mostly as regards the ongoing electioneering and the Saturday’s gubernatorial and state assembly elections.
“The group predominantly populated by political ambassadors drawn from various political parties due to the surreptitiously conduct and purported endorsement by some few individuals masquerading as adherents of the late former Governor of the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, deliberated on the ignominy and other developing matters.
“That Lam Adesina’s political family remains indivisible one. That Lamists / Unity Forum have nothing to do with All Progressives Congress, APC with its sheer disdainful conduct to rubbish and obliterate the legacy of the late former Governor.
“That Lamists remains disinterested to the anti-masses projects of the ruling administration marshalled by Governor Abiola Ajimobi.
“That we have not endorsed any gubernatorial candidate as we are still consulting far and near.
This is to make sure that opinions of all members of Lamists / Unity Forum as well as of those who contested the National Assembly elections are sought before arriving at a conclusion on who to support.
“That we are not rejoining the All Progressives Congress, APC, because the reasons we left the party have not been addressed.
“That membership of Lamists / Unity Forum in African Democratic Congress, ADC remains valid.
“That Sen. Olufemi Solagbode Lanlehin remains the leader of the group. That members of the group flying their respective electoral projects on various political party platforms next Saturday should forge ahead.
“That members of the clique should redouble their efforts in mobilizing voters en masse towards the emergence of our House of Assembly candidates and the governorship candidate we are going to adopt before Saturday’s election
“That Sen. Monsurat Sunmonu, Hon. Adedapo Lam Adesina, Hon. Sumbo Olugbemi, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun and a host of others remain members of the ADC as long the national leadership of APC refuses to do the needful in addressing the injustice that characterized the conduct of the last congress in Oyo State.”
