DEFECTION: Stop The Blame Game – “Ashipa” Slams Tegbe’s Critics, Oyo APC
OYO APC, STOP THE BLAME GAME –
(Amukun, eru e wo).
I am disappointed by the watery response of the APC to the defection of one of her Chieftains, Engr Joseph Tegbe, into the ruling party, the PDP. Politics is local. Cross carpeting from one party to the other isn’t strange to our home grown democracy. And neither is cross carpeting unconstitutional.
If truly the present leadership of the Oyo APC is genuinely interested in the reconciliation of her many aggrieved chieftains, this response is sending a wrong signal. A wrong signal to the aggrieved in that if the aggrieved don’t surrender to the undemocratic terms on ground, so would they be shabbily treated and derided.
Pre 2019 elections, the leadership of the Oyo APC not recognizing the truism that “we part to meet again”, some chieftains of this same Oyo state APC were cheated and insulted. The party imploded and the result was the loss of the state to the ‘less prepared’ Oyo PDP. Those chieftains insulted and injured pre 2019 are back. Have they forgotten the shabby treatment meted onto them? Has the APC leopard changes her spots? It is an open secret that the million member Reconciliation Committee recently set up by the Oyo state chapter of the APC is dead on arrival.
History is about repeating itself in the Oyo state APC because of her leadership short memory. The insult heaped on gentleman Joseph Tegbe today is a mirror reflection of what the Prof Adeolus, the Senator Soji Akanbis, the Senator Femi Lankehins, the Senator Fatai Buharis, the Niyi Akintolas, and a host of many unnamed others are expecting very soon.
Therefore, rather than insulting and attacking personality of gentleman Joseph Tegbe, look inward, allow other party chieftains to enjoy their stakeholders statuses by resharing the party excos from wards to lgas to state. Our home grown democracy is premised on “give and take”, “you rub my back, I rub yours”. APC is not the ruling party in Oyo state as at now, therefore she can’t enjoy the luxury of handpicked party organogram.
The defection of Engr Joseph Tegbe, though shocking, is less your problem.
STOP THE BLAME GAME.
Ashipa writes from Ibadan.
