35
POLITICAL PARTIES IN OSUN SET TO BOYCOTT IPAC PROGRAMME HOLDING TOMORROW IN
OSOGBO
Over 35 political
parties in Osun state have distanced themselves from partaking in tomorrow
scheduled programme aim at covering the past mistakes, shame and lapses of the
current IPAC Executive in Osun State. The programme which was billed to take
place in Osogbo tomorrow had no contributions of the General congress of IPAC
which the Council’s Code of Conduct mandated to be crucial for any activities
to be taken place in the Council.
Close
to ten (10) months now the current set of IPAC executive in Osun State has not
constituted any committee as enshrined in the IPAC Code of Conduct not to talk
of summoning the general congress of IPAC for a meeting which the code of
Conduct says the General Assembly shall meet, at least quarterly, also quorum
for the meetings of the General Assembly, shall be formed by fifty percent of
membership of the General Assembly. From our research nothing of such has taken
place. If there is any, then the register of such meeting should be shown to
the public with their names, signatures and parties that attended such meeting(s).
According
to Mr. Wole Adedoyin, who is the current Chairman of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP)
and the Association of Progressive Political Parties (Osun APPPS) said some
decisive steps has been taken to prohibit Osun IPAC Executive from infringing
on the provisions of the Code. For
example when the Executive members failed to create a general WhatsApp group
after 10 months of their inauguration as IPAC Executive for the general
congress, Adedoyin said, his intervention into the matter gave them a run which
made them to create the group last week.
On
the programme scheduled to take place tomorrow, Mr. Adedoyin said the programme is a selfish ploy by the present
Chairman of IPAC to continue his bad leadership in office till 2020. But the
fact remains that the general body of IPAC are fully aware of IPAC Chairman’s
shortcomings and inadequacies. The invitation of IPAC President, in person of
High Chief Peter Ameh is another political ploy to confuse the general congress
of IPAC in Osun State that they have the
backup and support of IPAC National leadership despite their breached of the
Code. Using IPAC President’s presence in the programme to score a cheap
political goal will eventually tell on the good image of the Council in the
state.
On
the concept and the theme of the scheduled programme, Adedoyin opined that IPAC
Chairman and his exco members have been working with some people outside the
Council who conceived the theme, content of the programme without the knowledge
of the general body of IPAC. 2019 elections has come and gone followed by
litigations and legal actions between the winners and the losers. 2022, 2023
and other future elections should be tabled to the audience. The House should
move forward not backward. Only the mistakes of the 2019 election should be
revisited.
Mr. Adedoyin observed
that since the emergence of IPAC in the state, Idowu Omidiji’s tenure has been
the best and historical. During the last Osun State Governorship election, he
made at least three press releases aimed at ensuring peace and harmony during
and after the last governorship election in the state. There are proofs and
evidences to buttress this point. Despite Chief Olusegun Agbaje’s efforts (Osun
INEC REC) in ensuring the 2018 and 2019 general elections was successful, Osun
IPAC never commended the Commission not even the political parties who were
stakeholders, who ensured peace and harmony reigned during and after the 2019 general
elections were also lauded. Osun IPAC was even muted most when Chief Olusegun
Agbaje MFR,mni (Osun INEC REC) was harassed and booed after attending a
programme earlier last year by some hoodlums who happened to be political
jobbers, some of us including my party, HDP made a strong statement condemning the attack and defended the REC.
On a final note, Adedoyin
believed Osun IPAC is not a property of some individuals who believed it’s
their fundamental rights to impose those who are incapable of making any change
or transforming the political space of the state. Such imposition should be
shunned and trampled upon during the forthcoming IPAC election in the State.
