Osun SDP suspends party chairman indefinitely over Omisore’s membership status

THE executives of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Osun, on Thursday, announced the indefinite suspension of the state chairman, Chief Ademola Ishola over his recent declaration that the former deputy governor of Osun State, Senator

Iyiola Omisore was not a member of the party.

Besides, they also accused Ishola of allegedly failing to “render an account of party grants and subventions, amounting to over N6 million collected for the past five years.”

Addressing a press conference in Osogbo, Osun State capital, former secretary of the SDP in the state, who is also an ex-officio member of state executive committee, Elder Timothy Agboola, who was flanked by the assistant secretary of the party, Mr Emmanuel Adeniji and ten members of the executives appointed the vice chairman of the party in Osun Central Senatorial District, Alhaji Ganiyu Babatunde as the acting chairman.

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Reading the resolutions of the party, Agboola said: “be informed that the state executive committee of the SDP at its emergency meeting held on the 26th of June, 2018 at its party secretariat in Osogbo met and resolved to pass no vote of confidence on the state chairman of the party and thereby suspend him.”

Parts of the reasons advanced for Ishola’s suspension include among others “misrepresentation of the state executive committee to the public through unauthorised press statement, usurping the powers of the state executive committee by refusing to call state executive meeting for the past three years.”

“Failure to render accounts of party grants and subvention collected for the past five years. Continued recognition and collaboration with Mr Segun Awe, erstwhile secretary of the party who was suspended by the state executive for misconduct, disobedience of party resolutions and anti-party activities.”

Reacting over his suspension, Ishola, who spoke to Tribune Online during telephone chat contended that those who suspended him were not members of the SDP and they lacked the power to suspend him.

He stated that “those people are not serious and I don’t have any letter to that effect and they are not members of the party. Let me tell you, we have a new constitution, new logo. I am the only person that remain and my secretary. I am the only person that can suspend anybody from the party. They don’t have any right to suspend me and I don’t know them. If it is true that they are members of the party and they want to do something like that, let them come to the party secretariat”.