Defection: Governor Adeleke victim of circumstance – PDP

By Lateef Ibrahim

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has described the defection of Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke as that of a victim of circumstance.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, made the remark yesterday during an interview on Channels Television’s Morning Brief, monitored in Abuja.
“Governor Adeleke’s defection is a victim of circumstance, which is vicarious, because every problem is human caused, and therefore, should also have human solution.
“And at the level of the leadership which he belonged to at the party, the party ought to have acted decisively. The challenge is immediately we begin to feed the monster, without knowing that we’ll end up in the belly of the monster, after a while we become victims.
“So if we feed animals to the monster, we feed others to the monster, and we think that time would solve problems. Time allows human beings to solve problems. It doesn’t, on its own, solve problems.
“So it’s vicarious in the sense that action by leadership ought to have been taken from 2023 immediately the decline started, but there were negotiations. I mean, you also cannot fully blame them, because sometimes you think that with negotiations, when passions are calm, that people could reconsider their position. But unfortunately, it didn’t until the convention took the decision it did in Ibadan.
“So that’s the nature of what has happened. Adeleke has become a victim of circumstances arising from vicarious liabilities which he cannot completely extricate himself,” Ememobong said.