By joshua 
Executive of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ijumu Local Government Area, Tuesday, came down heavy on detractors within its fold, vowing to invoke the relevant section of the party’s code against them.
This is contained in a communique issued from the party Secretariat and signed by 13 members of the executives.
Rising from its well attended inaugural meeting, held in Iyara, the party oberved that some dissidents within Ijumu, has since last one week, taken to the social media in a failed efforts at peddling falsehood in relation to the successful inauguration of the Ijumu Local Government Executive Committee of the party, which took place at the party secretariat in Iyara, Thursday November 4, 2021.
2) The group, according to the statement, is observed to be “aimlessly and joblessly” going round the wards in ijumu, armed with letters of blackmail, aimed at causing disaffection amongst the newly inaugurated Executive body.
“These unprogressive elements, whose mission has commenced a nose-dive at take-off, have been sported moving from one exco member to the other, with their knees on ground in a plea to make exco members assent to an ill-fated petition against the Local Government Chairman, Hon. Olabode Olorunmaiye” the statement posited.
It states further, “these criminally minded elements, out of despiration, are now engaged in forgery of signature of innocent individuals, in a bid to authenticating their kindergarten assemblage of radiant rubbish”
Following these observations, the party resolved as follow:
A) That all members of the Local Government Executive of PDP in Ijumu declare total and unreserved confidence in the leadership of Hon. Olabode Olorunmaiye, as its Chairman.
B) That the PDP Local Government Exco, under Hon. Olabode Olorunmaiye is monolithic and indivisibly United.
C) That the crisis that Segun Ojo and his cohorts are brandishing, only exists in their evil imagination.
D) That it is high time the leadership of our great party at both Local Government and State level, warned Segun Ojo and his co-travellers including one Festival Babalola, a civil servant, who has no political base whatsoever in Ijumu, who are secretly working for the rival party, to destabilise PDP, to desist from all actions that are designed to bring PDP into disrepute.
E) That there is a constitutional provision in PDP on how to deal with individual who are using court cases to hinder the progress of the party, and the party leadership will not hesitate at invoking the relevant sections against any distractor.
F) That the new exco are determine to remain undistracted in its pursuits at taking PDP to greater height come 2023.
G) That party exco gives equal honour to all leaders across the Local Government and they value the leadership of all of them as they all, in one accord pilot our great party into victory, come 2023.
The Signatories attached to the communique includes:
1) Olorunmaiye Samuel – Chairman
2) Kosoko Adewumi- Secretary
3) Ajibola Joshua -PRO
4) Isenuhi Adebayo – Ex-Officio
5. Ajike Abejide- W/Leader
6) Titilola Orugun – L/Adviser.
7) Ajileye Stanley P/Sec2
8)Alh. Yakub Wasiu-Auditor
9) Okuteunbi Femi A/ Sec
10) Apara Paul-Ex/Officio and
11) Mohammed Fatai -Org.Sec
The following party leaders were copied.
1. Chief (Prince) Olusola Akanmode
2. Chief Abiodun Ojo
3. Senator Dino Melaye
4. Prince Richard Akanmode
5. Chief. S. O . Adeleye
6. Chief Shola Adedoyin
7. Hon. S.K. Adekunle
8. Hon. Salau Lamidi