A PDP chieftain in Ogun State and chairman of the party in Ikenne Local Government Area, Hon. Gboyega Ogunfowokan has taken a swipe at Dr. Doyin Okupe over his comments on the emergence of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as national chairman of the party.
He also said that Okupe has spurned a request by the disciplinary panel set up by the State Chapter of the PDP for him to explain how he and others managed campaign funds and materials.
He said“with his latest outbursts, he has merely succeeded in committing himself the more and the appropriate organs of the party will sanction him accordingly”
In a statement he issued on Friday, Ogunfowokan said it was preposterous that “a paperweight Abuja/Lagos-based politician like Okupe, could speak so derogatorily about our party, and a three-term senator and two-term governor who has distinguished himself in his chosen endeavours.
He does his politics online, on the pages of newspapers, and on television and radio.”
The statement reads in part: “Although we were not totally surprised at his outbursts since we know his penchant for stirring the hornet’s nest, we had thought that he would have learnt from the collateral damage that his usually combative posture and unguarded outbursts caused the immediate past PDP administration. But alas, it is obvious that his inordinate ambition to become the national chairman of the PDP had further beclouded his sense of reasoning and fairness. That was why he backed his former colleague, Ahmed Gulak, in his (Okupe’s) vaunted ambition to become the national chairman of the party through the backdoor. They had planned that Gulak would hand over to him after forcibly taking control of the party.”
“Since he could not achieve his stillborn ambition, he has resorted to casting aspersion on those who have distinguished themselves in their chosen endeavours. He says if the PDP chooses to die, he would tarry at the graveside. For his information, if his actions and inactions while in government did not kill PDP, it cannot and will not die again. The worse is over for the PDP. It is Okupe and his ilk that should be preparing their political burial since they have lost every atom of political relevance.”
Ogunfowokan said it was most regrettable that the same Okupe who was alleged to have been involved in some failed contracts, and diverted campaign funds and transformers in Benue and Ogun states, and yet could aspire to be PDP’s National Chairman, would turn round to say someone was not fit to be the National Chairman of the PDP “just because of a mere allegation that is yet to be proved”.