Former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has told an elder of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun, to stop muddling up issues whenever he discussed him (Oyinlola) in the media.
The former governor, in a statement personally issued by him in Osogbo on Friday, said he had just read a newspaper interview in which Oyedokun accused him of “polluting the drinking water “of the PDP in the state, among other allegations.
“ I read Alhaji Oyedokun’s interview. He described himself as my brother who laid down all he had for me to achieve all I achieved in politics. I need to explain his kind of brother. Since my joining politics, every challenge, every opposition to whatever aspiration I had throughout my stay in the PDP had the fingerprints of this my elder brother. It is on record that my emergence as governor in 2003 was with very strong opposition from him using his powers then as the Deputy National Chairman of the party.
“Again, in the run-up to my second term bid in 2007, he defected to the then Action Congress (AC). I later, after more than a year, brought him back into the PDP but my brotherly gestures never received reciprocal goodness from him.
“And when I was removed as PDP National Secretary, what did he do? He, with joy, accepted to be a member of the Umaru Dikko committee set up by my adversaries to hound me out of the party. What kind of brother would join outsiders to assault his own?
“He described my exit from the PDP as ‘the most painful issue’ he had experienced in his 40 years in politics. I found this claim funny. So, the defection of his first son from the PDP to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2010, seven days after we lost power in Osun state, did not pain him?
“He also talked about apology over my exit from the PDP. If there is anyone who deserves an apology, it is I. He and his friends should seek God’s face, His mercy and forgiveness for the strings of injustices meted out to me in the last two years. I do not cry over spilt milk. I have moved on with my life and I hope they will let me be, “ Oyinlola said.
