Osun 2018: EX-PDP Chairman Fatai Akinbade boasts to succeed Aregbesola

A former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in Osun State, Alhaji Fatai
Akinbade has boasted to wrestle power from
the All Progressives Congress, APC led
administration in the state comes 2018.
He declared himself as the next governor of
the state having assessed himself as the most
competent and capable person to govern the
state.
Akinbade stated this in a life interview on a
private radio station in Osogbo, the state
capital on Monday.
He asserted that he is the most qualified
person to take over from Governor Rauf
Aregbesola who has been piloting the affairs
of the state since 2010.
Akinbade, who is also a former Secretary to
the Osun State Government under the
administration of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola,
expressed readiness to contest the 2018
governorship election in the state.
Akinbade contested the August 9, 2014
governorship election in the state under the
platform of Labour Party and polled over 8000
votes.
Responding to questions on his ambition,
Akinbade said: I am the next governor of Osun
State. “Am I not qualified, am I not capable,
am I not competent? I know it is God; I have a
sterling record of performance. Anybody that
has anything against me should go to court.
“I have been serving the state since 1994. My
record is clean, when I was in government, I
did not receive bribe.”
He added that his ambition was to liberate the
people of the state from all the pains and
agonies currently undergoing under the
leadership of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC).
On why he left the PDP, Akinbade said the
failure of the PDP to cater for the wants of
former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola made
him to leave the party.
“Omisore took over Osun PDP then, he wanted
to take over everything…,I didn’t want a war…,
we wanted to eradicate winner takes all, but
that was not there…., that was why we left”, he
explained.
The former Osun State SSG also stressed the
need for a vibrant opposition in the country
hoping that the current travails of the PDP
locally and nationally would soon be over.
He said the crux of politicians in the APC is
the political trainees of the PDP, noting that
Nigeria’s terrain is made of the same people
who find a “comfortable place for soft
landing”.
Alhaji Akinbade who spoke on moves by
political figures in Yorubaland to form a
union, said the alliance is waxing stronger
with more people to be incorporated soon.
According to him “the meeting we are holding
in Ibadan is not just a party affair but to allow
for simple majority. We have so many people
there. It may also turn around to be a political
party.
“It is an alliance of Yoruba people and
politicians. Baba Akande is our B.O.T
Chairman. We held our last meeting in our
house, Baba Saka Balogun Chairman,
Ambassador Yemi Farounbi is the Spokesman,
we want our voice to be unified.
“We have met with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, we
have been meeting with Baba Akande, we have
gone to meet with Baba Obasanjo, and we will
still meet him. It is all about the Yoruba
nation”, he disclosed.