OYINLOLA WRITES JONATHAN, OFFERS TO QUIT PDP

• Says “I am not wanted by the National Leader (Jonathan) of the party.”
• Enumerates how President ‘frustrated my return’
Former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and his party,Peoples Democratic |Party (PDP), are about parting ways…for good.
The retired general believes President Goodluck Jonathan does not want him in the party even after going the extra mile to prove his loyalty.
Oyinlola in a July 30, 2014 letter to the President said he would not be doing himself any good “if I don’t think seriously about my political journey and take a firm decision.”
The former PDP National Secretary enumerated the various efforts he and others including his friend and former colleague in the army, Senate President David Mark, made to reconcile with the party and said: “I may, at this point, need to look beyond the party and take my destiny in my hands.”

OYINLOLA: I DID NOT DEFECT TO APC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday set the stage for the expulsion of the chairman of its splinter group, Alhaji Kawu Baraje; his deputy, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja; and the party's court-reinstated national secretary, Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
The party's disciplinary committee, chaired by Alhaji Umaru Dikko, recommended to the PDP National Working Committee (NWC), headed by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, that the trio should be expelled from the party for working against its interests.
Baraje and Jaja along with five governors of the party joined other members of the New PDP on Tuesday to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Although Oyinlola, a former governor of Osun State, was at a meeting where the decision to defect from PDP was taken, he clarified yesterday that he was not jumping ship with the others to the opposition party, saying he remains in the ruling party.

PDP GOVERNORS MOVE TO REINSTATE OYINLOLA

In a bid to reunite its South-west chapter, Peoples Democratic Party has commenced moves to reinstate Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Chief Olabode Mustapha, and Mr. Segun Oni as its national secretary, national auditor, and national vice chairman for South-west, respectively, THISDAY has learnt.

The newly formed PDP Governors’ Forum, led by Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio, which is driving the reconciliation effort, also plans to restore the sacked South-west executive of the party. The forum, it is learnt, has also ordered the restoration of the dissolved PDP state executive in Adamawa State led by Mijijnwa Kaugama, pending the outcome of a presidential committee led by Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, which is investigating the crisis in the state chapter.