A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo state, Hon. Ademola Omotoso has said that himself and some other persons are the authentic members of the party.
Omotoso stated that he has never left PDP since he joined the party in the year 2000.
The PDP chieftain who spoke with reporters in Ibadan as part of his 60 years birthday, said; “I need people to know that I have never left Peoples Democratic Party since 2000 that I joined.
“The governor had once left the party. When there was no PDP shortly after 2015 elections, I stood with PDP. Myself and my group were the only one meeting at that time. Some other people were in some strange parties that could not give them the platforms to win elections at that time. But a party is a party, we needed to accommodate other people.
“We are the authentic party members and not aggrieved as some have been saying. We had our parallel Congress at Jogor, they came to attack us. Then, who is the aggrieved? If we are the aggrieved as they have been claiming, we were supposed to have attacked them and not the other way round”.
He added: “I don’t have regret for supporting Seyi Makinde, he was the candidate of the party and I must support the candidate of the party.
“When you lay down your life for what you believe, you don’t have to feel that you’ve done something extraordinary. I don’t know what happened along the line because we all were considered as stupid.
“I worked seriously for this government, I worked to entrench this Governor Seyi Makinde’s administration. He knows that I worked”, he lamented.
