The lessons people learn from history is that they never learnt , that is why history keeps repeating itself.
Many of my beloved party associates are poting from APC to ACCORD and I feel for them and also feel sad about the turn of events.
I feel for some of them (not all) because of their commitment and building of APC in the past years however, they felt frustrated and abandoned their beloved party to try there luck in ACCORD party.
During the time we were in AD (1999-2007) by then, AD has metamorphos into AC, during the build up to AC, a meeting was held at Osun State. A meeting was held at Oshogbo in which the Leader of the party Asiwaju BAT insisted that Lam. Adesina is there ‘person’ in Oyo-State as such, 60% of the party structure will be handed over to him and other groups in the AD (Heritage group was our own group being Led by Senator Ajimobi) after series of altercation, we left in anger because we realized that we can’t realise the Gubernatorial ambition of SAAA in the AC of that time. (Just as some members of APC looks for alternative platform in ACCORD), first we tried ADC later left for ANPP.
ANNP appeared formidable at the election of 2007, which we believed that we won but robbed the electoral victory. We were able to achieve the strong show in the election because of alliance with Senator Ladoja, who was the incumbent Governor of Oyo-State then who put political apparatchik of Government behind us.
The situation is not with ACCORD now, as the incubent Governor Seyi Makinde, will be contesting in 2023. So the ACCORD soujourner will not have the power of incumbent Governor to support for electoral victory at best, he may woo them to support his ambition, may best be liking to ADC of 2019.
Hence it obvious to political discerner to know this ACCORD experiment is destines for only one result. Exercise in futility.
Engr. Seyi Makinde was in our team of 2007 as he contested Oyo South Senatorial election, which he lost. He subsequently went to SDP the party he spent his blood and sweat to build, the platform failed him twice in Gubernatorial election. (Similar to this ACCORD, Senator Ladoja also tried this ACCORD which failed him). Engr. Seyi Makinde wised up and went to PDP with “Omi tuntun” team, and he subsequently hijacked (Jagba) PDP Gubernatorial Ticket by the grace of God, he is the incubent Governor of Oyo-State, the position which terminates on the 28th May 2023 bearing opportunity for second time.
Prior to election of 2019 16 State Honourable and one Senator ported to ADC from APC to form ADC, at the turn of events of 2019 election, ADC failed woefully in Oyo-State, all the State Honourables and National Assembly failed to win the election, and failed only to form coalition with Makinde.
If ANPP of Ajimobi, ACCORD of LADOJA and SDP of Makinde. ADC of Honourable members, failed.
Then it’s clear, without the expertise of a Soothsayer, the current ACCORD will fail.
Strictly speaking the next Governor of Oyo-State come 2023 is Teslim Folarin or Seyi Makinde.
“Third force” has repeatedly failed in Oyo-State, the current exercise, is exercise in futility, waste of time, waste of energy and resources.
