- A Yoruba group in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has faulted Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe's support for River state governor, Nyesom Wike's statement on the Yoruba people
- The chairman of the group, Dr Adegoke Adaranijo, said the former minister should have asked Wike to apologise instead of supporting him
- The group asked Ogunlewe to retract his statement and apologise to the Yoruba people
The league of Yoruba professionals in the peoples Democratic Party, has expressed displeasure over Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe's open support for River state governor, Nyesom Wike's recent statement on the Yoruba people, Punch reports.
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NAIJ.com gathered that the group in a statement on Monday, December 18 by its chairman, Dr Adegoke Adaranijo, faulted the former minister of works, saying that as a former minister, Ogunlewe should have asked Wike to apologise to the Yoruba people.
.Adaranijo said the league read with dismay, comments credited to Ogunlewe, where he defended Wike's statement.
He further stated that he expected that as a former minister, Ogunlewe should have asked Wike to apologise to the Yoruba people.
The statement partly read, “Even when many leaders in the Yoruba nation, who are within the PDP fold had denounced Wike’s utterances as crude and uncouth, Ogunlewe, in his characteristic manner, has aligned himself with the traducer of his own people.
“Is Ogunlewe happy that our people are being lampooned and dishonoured in the market square?
“A former governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, even rose above partisan politics to fault Wike’s pronouncements. That is the way it should be.”
The group asked Ogunlewe to retract his statements and tender an apology to the Yoruba people.
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that there were indications that former president Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State were at loggerheads over the Prince Uche Secondus’ bid to become the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Jonathan was said to be against Secondus, a frontline chairmanship aspirant in the party who hails from the Ijaw-speaking part of Rivers state, and was reportedly mobilising serious opposition against him.
On the other hand, Wike and other south-south governors were strongly behind Secondus, a former acting chairman of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC).
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Source: Naija.ng
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Tuesday, 19 December 2017