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One of the founding members of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in Oyo state,Yekini Adeojo, at the weekend, gave Oyo State governor, Adebayo
Alao-Akala a condition he should meet before he gets needed support for his
second term ambition.

Speaking with journalists at his Iyaganku Quarters residence in
Ibadan, Mr Adeojo said if the governor could survive a fraud-free primaries and
emerge the flagbearer of the party for the 2011 governorship election in the
state, he will wholeheartedly support his ambition.

He, however, described the feat as gargantua, saying it has
almost become a taboo going by the history of successive governors in the state
from its inception.

“It is a taboo for Akala to say he wants to do it twice.
Alao-Akala cannot do it twice. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Samuel Akintola and
Chief Bola Ige who actually performed well did not succeed.Somehow, they all
fell,” he said.

A former governorship aspirant in the state, Mr Adeojo condemned
Mr Alao-Akala for allegedly disrespecting the national leadership of the party
by not personally attending a meeting called to harmonise all factions of the
PDP within the party in the state last week.

Act unbecoming

The governor was said to have sent Olayiwola Olakojo, secretary
to the state government and one other person, to represent him at a meeting
organised by Okwesilieze Nwodo, PDP national chairman,to iron out issues on the
crisis rocking the party in the state.

“If Akala emerges after the party leadership at the national has
intervened and successfully harmonised all the groups, I will campaign for him.
But, we are not going to primaries with those old Oyo state executives because
they have been declared illegal by the INEC. The governor is not bigger than
the party because it is the party that made him. If a party called him and he
did not honour it, it shows he doesn’t have respect for the party,” Mr Adeojo
said.

The politician said the governor’s attitude is unbecoming of a
man who rose to the top through the help of the party.

Though he said he would not want to say unpleasant things about
the governor,whom he referred to as a brother, Mr Adeojo averred that it is a
bad showing for the governor to want to place himself above the party after
coming to the limelight through it.

While boasting that he was instrumental to the emergence of Mr
Alao Akala as the governor, Mr Adeojo, one of the notable members of the
coalition against the second term of the governor, said he will like to witness
a renewed harmony among the factions within the party.