For the first time since Governor Seyi Makinde became Governor of Oyo state in 2019, I got to know that Oyo PDP actually has someone occupying the position of Youth Leader at the state level.
On the day the elephant fell, you are bound to see all manners of knives.
I read the press statement by the Oyo PDP Youth Leader, one Comrade Lekan Bello regarding the incident at the venue of the Oyo APC Youths summit which held at the Civic Center in Ibadan yesterday, 17th of December, 2025 and my first impression after reading the press statement was to ask what business the comrade has in the matter that made him to dissipate so much needless energy on an issue where he shouldn’t be concerned at all.
I thought within myself that the gentleman must be extremely idle.
According to the Oyo PDP Youth Leader, the act of ejecting Hon. Saheed Fijabi from the venue of the Oyo APC Youths summit was ‘ disgraceful, reckless and embarrassing ‘.
Please, help ask him, who is being disgraced and embarrassed?
Him, the PDP or who?
These funny people in Oyo PDP can be nauseating.
If the Youth Leader is now being embarrassed and disgraced because the Youths within Oyo APC decided to be proactive against saboteurs, how did the Youth Leader feel when Auxiliary and his gang of trouble makers took over Oyo state, enforcing a reign of terror for over four years?
Was he a happy man at the time?
The APC Youths saw someone who just disparaged their party, a couple of days before the summit and they asked him to excuse them from the summit and once the fellow in question exited the venue, they proceeded with their robust engagements as scheduled, without further itch.
If the PDP are disgraced and embarrassed as a result of that proactive measure, I recommend that they take pain killers.
The clownish fellow also went further to say that the actions of the Oyo APC Youths constituted what he termed as ‘ .. national embarrassment, breakdown of order, discipline and leadership within the APC’!
I think the PDP Youth Leader made this statement out of context.
How could such a small matter within the Civic Center in Ibadan constitute a ‘ national embarrassment ‘?
National embarrassment, to who?
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The reference to the words, ‘.. breakdown of order, discipline and leadership ‘ further reinforced the fact that the gentleman was just talking without pausing to chew his words.
If you are talking about a breakdown of order, discipline and leadership, how is that applicable to the APC?
Is it not the PDP that is struggling with orderliness, discipline and leadership across the country?
Are they not the ones breaking glasses and bottles on each other’s heads at the Wadata Plaza some weeks ago?
Are they not the ones who have taken themselves to multiple Courts across the country?
Are they not the ones who have everything in double-double?
Double National Secretariat.
Double National and state party officers across the country?
Why would people not concentrate on removing the logs in their own eyes but would be sweating over the chaffs in the eyes of others?
I laughed till tears were rolling down my eyes when I read the portion where the Oyo PDP Youth Leader claimed that Oyo APC ‘ could not manage its internal affairs and therefore lacks the moral authority to aspire to govern Oyo state ‘.
Beautiful diction, but where is the sense in that statement?
If the PDP is capable of managing its internal affairs, why is it that Governors, Senators and House of Representatives members elected under it keeps defecting to the APC on a daily basis to the extent that only Governor Seyi Makinde remains as Governor in the party in the whole of Southern Nigeria?
In a spate of two months, Oyo APC has organized a Leadership Summit.
The Students wing has held a summit and the Youths just held a successful Summit.
I understand that the PDP must be jittery as a result of these positive steps.
My simple advice for the PDP in Oyo state is to face the existential problems bedeviling their party.
As for the Oyo PDP Youth Leader, healer, heal thyself.
I am not aware of any programs of engagements that the PDP Youths has organized until now.
Someone cooked a soup and you’re calling for his head because you claim the soup is not tasty.
What should be done to you, who prepared nothing.
Oyo APC have demonstrated that it would no longer tolerate saboteurs within it’s fold and no matter how loud the PDP chose to wail, nothing would change.
Sola Abegunde.
