Crisis in Ado-Odo/Otta APC over appointments

Youths, who are members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ado-Odo, Ado-Odo/Otta Local Government area of Ogun State,  have vowed to slug it out with their leaders, who they accused of putting forward names of incompetent persons for appointments into Gov. Dapo Abiodun's government. 

The youths, according to a statement signed on their behalf by Alagbe Oluwagbemiga, claimed that the party had directed their leaders to submit names of the best from each wards.

Alagbe complained that the leaders of Ado-Odo Ward 1 and 2, for reasons best known to them, chose to present names of persons with lower qualifications, while omiting PhD holders. 

His words: "How can twenty names be compiled and after we manage to garner six to our area by dividing them between Ado-odo one and two wards, our leaders placed us on the backfoot by producing a list filled with one HND holder and two supposed NCE holders.... In a Local government where other communities are showcasing their best so that they can gather all the posts to themselves while we sit down in Ado-odo and we seem contented playing second fiddle. 

"Why the party leadership decided to omit names of Doctor Osaro,a PHD holder with vast experience in teaching and administration, Mr Sunkanmi Olayode etc still baffles some of us, when the instruction from the state was clearly stated... " PRESENT THE BEST QUALIFIED PEOPLE IN YOUR AREAS OR WARDS".

Alagbe asked the accused leaders to either do the needful or step aside, adding that the community could not continue to be 'second fiddle' any more. 

"We are tired of being second best. We  won't settle for that anymore. It must be all or nothing for us in Ado-odo, if the party can't stop playing suppressive leadership, then they should step aside, at least it's not a family title," he stated. 

Read the full statement below:

APC ADO-ODO AND THE POLITICS OF SECOND FIDDLE..... 

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best but I guess that the APC leadership in Ado-odo didn't take their time to listen to Nelly's nellyvile chorus....

"What does it take to be number one?

Two is not a winner

And 3 nobody remembers (hey)

What does it take to be number one?"

This should have been in the heads of the Ado-odo APC leaders even before campaigns kicked off but alas, what we've had is a sort of inept leadership filled with showmanship and suppression. The same acts that some of us rebeled against and we became outcasts amongst relatives, friends and even our respective communities. Acts that made us loose woefully in Ado-odo despite the hardwork many of us put into the elections...  

The same Ado-odo APC where we have so many of these leaders that failed to deliver even their polling units has now turned to a party where those that lost are now segregating those that dug hard into their reserves to produce wins out of nowhere. We now have a leadership that is happy suppressing most of it's best strikers only to start playing second fiddle to other communities around us which is now becoming disastrous for us in Ado-odo.

So many have asked why we've decided to play politics outside our town despite our active roles during the campaigns and elections not knowing that many of us have been suppressed by a inept leadership that has been focused on pushing just one or two people forward while others are been suppressed despite their areas of expertise, educational qualifications etc. We now have a leadership where people with ideas are been neglected because of culinary motives. 

How can twenty names be compiled and after we manage to garner six two our area by dividing them between Ado-odo one and two wards, our leaders placed us on the backfoot by producing a list filled with one HND holder and two supposed NCE holders.... In a Local government where other communities are showcasing their best so that they can gather all the posts to themselves while we sit down in Ado-odo and we seem contented playing second fiddle. 

Why the party leadership decided to omit names of Doctor Osaro,a PHD holder with vast experience in teaching and administration, Mr Sunkanmi Olayode etc still baffles some of us, when the instruction from the state was clearly stated... " PRESENT THE BEST QUALIFIED PEOPLE IN YOUR AREAS OR WARDS".

Even they claim that the order was misinterpreted and they thought that the list was meant for employment, how come a particular party chieftain's name end up in the list, how many years would he have worked before retiring at the age of sixty or sixty-five years. Wouldn't it have been better if we had been testing the waters with our best feet forward rather playing suppressive politics that empowers just one or two people at the detriment of other people that also fought a very hard battle with them. 

How come all these are happening in a LCDA where even the candidate that contested for the house of assmebly elections has a wardrobe filled with qualifications, how come we are now presenting NCE as our best....  

One hard truth that our leaders have failed to listen to is the fact that it wasn't leaders that won the elections for APC, it was the good people of OGUN STATE and most of the youths that won the election, so how come they're now suppressing the same youths and other people just  to aid one or two people to the top. Do they really have the best interest of Ado-odo in their heart. 

Another thing they should know is this, this honeymoon will soon be over and ADO-ODO will soon start asking questions about our stewardship, they'll surely start asking why their roads and other infrastructures could not be brought down to Ado-odo and I hope by then, we that are in APC will have answers for them. 

We are tired of being second best. We  won't settle for that anymore. It must be all or nothing for us in Ado-odo, if the party can't stop playing suppressive leadership, then they should step aside, at least it's not a family title.... Ado-odo and it's development must be paramount in all that we do as politicians or else, we will keep retrogressing.... Which God forbid, will be very worse if care isn't not taking... 

TO THE LEADERSHIP OF APC IN ADO-ODO, LET US CHANGE OUR THOUGHTS, SO THAT WE CAN CHANGE ADO-ODO..... WE NEED TO START GETTING OUR PRIORITIES RIGHTS AND PLACING THEM IN GOOD ORDER WILL AUGUR WELL FOR US.... 

e-signed 

Alagbe Oluwagbemiga

APC ADO-ODO WARD II...