All the members of the state party executive committee, 69 local government chairmen and the party local government chairmen of the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have passed a vote of confidence in the leadership of the recently ratified acting state chairman of the party, Sooko Taju Lawal.
The motion was moved by the Chairman of Isokan Local Council Development Area, Hon. Goke Odetunde, and unanimously supported at a meeting on Wednesday at the state secretariat of the party in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
The seat became vacant with the appointment of the state party chairman, Prince Adegboyega Famodun as the Owa of Igbajo in the last days of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola as governor of the state. Upon his assumption of office on Monday, Governor Ademola Adeleke however suspened the Owa and the other two monarchs — the Akrinrun of Ikirun and the Aree of Iree — ordering the police to take over their palaces.
At Wednesday’s meeting, which was witnessed by the APC State Media Director, Chief Kola Olabisi, the party chairman in Ayedaade Local Government Council Area, Alhaji Abdulraman Moronkeji said that the new acting state chairman has been a resourceful leader who has been using his God-given endowments to improve the fortune of the party.
In his response, Lawal expressed gratitude to the stakeholders for the confidence they reposed in him with a pledge not to let them and the party down.
He enjoined the stakeholders to continue to co-operate with him in the interest of the party, which is the binding factor for all the APC functionaries and leaders alike.
The new state helmsman tasked the stakeholders to extend and radiate love to all the hierarchical structures of the party in their various local government council areas in order to improve the confidence of the members of the party.
He used the opportunity to thrash out some issues that arose in the meeting to the satisfaction of the attendees.
Lawal implored the APC political functionaries to, as a matter of duty and continued loyalty to the party, attend the resumed session of the ongoing governorship election petition tribunal in Osogbo on Thursday in order to give moral support to the legal team handling the matter.
He also tasked the state Commissioner of Police and all other statutory security agencies in the state to beef up security around, and at the tribunal venue in order to ward off political hoodlums who, it was learnt, are threatening to attack the APC members in order to unsettle and intimidate them.
Lawal stated that he has absolute confidence in the Police and their sister agencies to maintain peace at the tribunal.
