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He Vows to Remain In AD.
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| CHIEF OLUSOLA OKE,SAN,AD GUBER CANDIDATE IN ONDO GUBER 2016 |
What is next for CHIEF OLUSOLA OKE ?,
the 2016 Alliance For Democracy, AD
guber Flagbearer has become the common rhetorical questions on the lips of many
political watchers of Ondo State Politics following his last week declaration that
has no plan to dump the party that gave him the governorship ticket.
An uneasy calm was witnessed among
some of his followers and across all the other political camps that has sympathy
and very loyal to the Ilaje frontline politician that recently got elevated at
the bench into the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, cadre, Oke’s political ambitions and interest.
ILAJESTARS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
who monitored the latest development and was opportune to speak with some
political leaders of AD in Okes camp report that majority of the followers left
the meeting venue dejected with mixed feeling following Oke declaration that he
has no plan to leave the AD Party despite losing the last election.
Oke who clears the air over the
rumour milling around over his purported defection plan back to the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP as being peddled following a media report that he held a
meeting with former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in company of some other
PDP Leaders in South West.
He told hundreds of his political
followers and supporters from across the 18 Local Government in the state who
were present at the meeting held in his palatial mansion inside the Ijapo, GRA,
Akure, the State Capital.
Oke reaffirmed his commitment and
total loyalty to his party, AD saying, “I
have no intention of dumping AD, or planning to cross carpet to any other
party, this is still the best place wher my political future and those of my
followers can best be guarantee”
With that declaration political
watchers and analyst of the Ondo State politics have started different postulation
on what might be the major reason why Oke still want to remain in AD Party.
Avery popular, Ilaje-Born but
Akure based Political Analyst and Commentator who speak under condition of anonymity
confined in ILAJESTAR 247 Correspondent that Oke may be banking on the whopping
vote he pool from the Southern Senatorial District during the last November,
2016 Ondo State guber election to wanted to translate it into political
advantage in te nearest future.
The IIaje Political Analysts who
also claimed to have a very deep insight and knowledge in to Oke’s trajectory having worked with
him said Oke’s
political calculation is tending towards
as if he is nursing another political agenda which the next 2019 Senate and National
Assembly remains the best opportunity.
The man further explained that as
one of Oke’s foot-soldier and die
hard follower having journeyed with Oke through those critical stages of his
political trajectories in the past can attest to the fact that Oke is a very
ambitious person who has an unquenchable thirst to serve his people at any
capacity.
He concluded within his mind and
voice out that the only way Oke can sustained his political integrity and
maintain his political rating is to take advantage of his current popularity to
struggle for the Southern Senatorial Ticket come 2019.
“I
am not jumping to a quick conclusion but just forecasting what is expected from
Oke in the nearest future because the coast is a bit clears for him as those
who might give him stress in the contest are either engaged, in disarray or in
political self-exile”
It would be recalled that Oke different
political ambitions has suffered all manners of mis-adventures, untold hardship
and repression from the moment he launched out for the Ilaje/EseOdo Federal
Constituency seat,his Senatorial aspiration in 2007,his first guber ambition in
2013 and 2016respectively.
OKE POLITICAL TRAJECTORY &
EXPLOITS:
Oke started out as very popular
youth activist in the rank of Ilaje Progressive Front (IPF), a front line youth
pressure group in late 80's. that later metamorphosed into a political group.
In spite of the pressure of the group
on him to join active politics, he stayed in the course of his Law Practice until
1991 when he was made the Local Government Legal Adviser of the Social Democratic
Party, SDP.
From 1991 to 1992, he was a member
of Board of Internal Revenue in Ondo State and thereafter Oke have combined
politics with his legal practice without necessarily leaving one for the other.
He was elected as a member,
Federal House of Representatives Representing Ilaje / Ese-odo Federal
Constituency in 1992.
By year 2000, he was appointed into
the pioneer board of the Niger Delta Development Commission [NDDC] and what we
did in the board of NDDC and the experience garnered facilitated my appointment
as the Executive Chairman of the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development
Commission (OSOPADEC), another intervention agency, in 2004.
In 2005, he was nominated and served
in the National Political Reform Conference and in 2007, and also served as a
member of the Presidential Technical Committee on Niger Delta.
While also serving on appointment
as Chairman of the Board of the Federal Polytechnic, Bida in 2009 he was re-appointed
as Chairman, National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency between, 2009 to
2011.
In 2010,Oke was elected as the PDP
National Legal Adviser the position he held till 2011.
And he emerged as the gubernatorial
standard flagbearer for the PDP in12 and for the AD in 2016 all in Ondo State gubernatorial elections.
