The Lagos chapter of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) says Wale Oluwo, ex-commissioner for energy and
mineral resources in the state, defected from the party because his attempts to
deceive party members were foiled.
Oluwo had dumped the ruling party
for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and resigned his position as
commissioner.
He had accused the leadership of
the ruling party of being anti-democratic in the process through which Babajide
Sanwo-Olu emerged as the flagbearer of the APC in the 2019 governorship
election.
However, the Lagos APC, in a
statement by Joe Igbokwe, its spokesman, said Oluwo had been found wanting of
anti-party activities.
The party accused him of
allegedly working to foil the emergence of Babatunde Fashola as the state
governor in 2007.
He also accused Oluwo of several
attempts to use the power of his office to place his wife in strategic
positions in the state.
“It is on record that Oluwo first
made an attempt to reap from the challenges of internal party democracy in our
progressive movement when he teamed up with one of the losers in the 2007
primaries of the Action Congress to stop Babatunde Fashola’s sure victory at
the polls. The unfortunate political adventurism failed woefully,” the
statement read.
“However, in the conventional
demonstration of mercy and forgiveness, Oluwo’s principal, was accommodated in
the second term cabinet of Governor Babatunde Fashola as the Commissioner for
Tourism.
“A similar milk of mercy and kindness
led to the consideration Of Oluwo as a member of the Lagos State Executive
Council under Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in the hope that he has purged himself
of opportunism, disloyalty and vaulting desperation for power.
“Oluwo had hardly resumed as the
Commissioner when he began his plot to use that office to advance his quest for
political fiefdom. The object of his ambition was the positioning of his wife
as the chairman of a local government.
“The party rank and file aborted
this abuse of power and reckless peddling of influence and everybody thought
the lesson had been learnt. He, apparently, had not.
“As soon as the procedures for
the general elections began, Oluwo once again became the only commissioner to
seek his wife as the member of House of Assembly for Eti- Osa.
“By now the pattern of his
ambition had become clear. The intrigue that enabled him to make his wife the
first- term commissioner’s wife to become the chairperson of the committee
which organised the annual National Women Conference became clear. It was meant
to achieve undeserved visibility.
“This obnoxious attempt to
deceive party members was again foiled and it is the aggravated frustration
that has led to this defection.”
Igbokwe alleged that Oluwo’s
defection is evidence that he was a mole of the opposition party.
He, however, added that it
remains unshaken, while wishing Oluwo well in his future endeavours.
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