Aeroland’s reconciliatory moves, not sincere says Salvador

Hon. Adegoke Moshood Salvador a factional chairman of People Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State,has revealed the true picture of the recent reconciliatory moves initiated by Segun Adewale is not sincere and short lived,stressing readiness to accommodate intending aspirants from the other groups to affirm his magnanimity,on the coming council poll, while he doubts Aeroland’s intent.He spoke with Lanre Adesanya commenting on some other sundry issues. Excerpt:

Segun Adewale (Aeroland) was said to have extended the olive branch to your group,where does this leave you on the reconciliatory turf as you were absent that day?

That Aeroland is bringing Olive branch to us, we would like you to know that Aeroland is not a stupid person,he is only playing smart and he is about playing to the gallery and for any party lover,for any experienced politician,seeing a slightest opportunity of peace quickly embrace it,even if just one percent out of hundred,a peaceful gesture please secure that one first,that was just what I did,when they came I agree with them and I got to know that he is ready to relinquish his chairmanship and accept me as a chairman, I said very good so that in the spirit of the coming election we can team up to win election,there is nothing more than that, I put it on the social media that all party leaders and lovers and elders should praise him for that particular gesture,but people that know him knows that he can never by his nature stand by his words, he says one thing today after five minutes,he starts blowing hot and cold, that is his image, so we don’t take such partnership that serious. He doesn’t have that personality that somebody like me will take him very serious,because few days after,even the second day he started calling himself chairman again after making such statement. Few days after he called for a meeting, in the constitution of the party,Deputy Chairman or anybody don’t have the power to convene the meeting except the chairman how do you then call for a meeting without my consent? That is why we can see that he is up to something not really peace.

In essence that informs why you were not party to that supposed reconciliatory move?

Yes I cannot because I have gone so far,in the political history of this country,my face cannot just be seen anywhere, I must be sure of what we are talking about before I can go into it,good enough you want to say whatever you like we will allow you go to our party secretariat and say it. He went there, he was on tape we cut it to CD for people that were not there to see but surprisingly, he is playing another tune, so we are not taking that.

He is vying for gubernatorial seat in Ekiti state,do you see him as one of the mole in the party,that may cause a lot of problem for the party leaving Lagos to Ekiti?

Yes he can be the type that abuse or ridicule and paint people with very bad image,I will not I can’t call him a mole,I can’t be suspecting any funny thing, that he can pronounce it from his mouth that he wants the two groups to work together so that we can win election,so I can not call anybody any name.

But Aeroland was quoted to have stressed at that supposed reconciliatory parley that that meeting need be reconvened to have both groups be on the same page,has spoken with you at any point in time to facilitate reconvening another meeting has expressed?

Not at all,he has not spoken with me and he kept on inviting people to the secretariat therefore from this very moment I will stop them from using our secretariat, our secretariat belongs to us, it doesn’t even belong to political party,but the people that paid for the secretariat, the receipt of the secretariat rent payment has no PDP on it. We are smarter than that,there is crisis in your party,therefore you have to be careful with what you do and where you put your money and what you use your money to do. So it is not PDP that pays for the secretariat.

What is the way forward? given the fact that you know the antecedent of this personality in question and you said you are subscribing partially to that reconciliatory move, in that there is a sign in his gesture which you need to show you understand him,while you retain your guard?

Look there is a precedence in Delta, Sheriff group/Makarfi use the Accord party, won their election and then come back to PDP,it can happen anywhere, where can you cannot see any reasonable way of reconciliation,if you see them playing any game,you just have to be very careful,that this people are just holding our legs for failure,so you have to play smart.

How prepared are you for the upcoming council poll?

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I am telling you even they have their pants down already,they scared,in fact when they even of reconciliation they nearly collapsed,this guy that doesn’t know the value of that step,is trying to spoil it again,but no matter how they do members of the party both in Makarfi or Sheriff they seeing them all now and are not ready to lose their money. Anybody that buys forms from them should be able to know that they have wasted their money. INEC has done their clarifications and by Tuesday the clarification will be made public,we would welcome their people if they can quickly buy form,I can extend the days of buying forms, like a day or two so that we can make room for their people to quickly come and buy.

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You were quoted to have said that you are holding a meeting with one of their leaders regarding the reconciliatory move and that you should have entered the secretariat together with Segun Adewale (Aeroland),does that lay credence to the fact that you were aware of the move,given the fact that you said Honourable Dipo Olorunrinu was there to represent your group?

Very good,I was briefed about that statement and when I ask the person who made the statement he said he made that statement just to cover what he said,the blackmail he was trying to make,that look at them ooo,they are not ready for reconciliation,while they are waiting in their secretariat so that was why such statement came up, I don’t just appear anywhere just like that,I know who I am and also protect my personality,I can’t stand somebody that is not sincere take picture and be tagging it whatever. I would not allow that to happen,In deliberately,intentionally avoided the meeting.

Does that mean there is no end in sight as regards the crisis in Lagos PDP?

Oh! You don’t understand what I am trying to say,that personality is not a consistent person,you are not sure whether he was ready for reconciliation and you would just go and stand there in the name of reconciliation when suddenly they began to sing another song. I just have to be very careful standing there together with him. If you know you are doing it genuinely we will see the result.

As a member of your party,with an intention to gun for gubernatorial seat in Ekiti,will he get your support and that of the party from the Lagos end in any form?

Being our family in Lagos, we will give such support to him anywhere,anytime and for whatever he wants,we have to be giving him support because there is no way you will write the history of Segun Adewale without Lagos PDP.

The Minority leadership tussle is still on in the Lagos state house of Assembly,in that you two members there,thus the party needs that office to be perceived having any reckoning therein,what other update have you gotten with respect to the letter that you wrote?

Yes I think House of Assembly Lagos state needs to be educated,seeing there are some level of illiteracy in their moves,they need be updated. I study political science to the phd level,read political science up to MSC in the University of Lagos and they gave me phd in the University of Cambridge to study ‘Modern Society and Globalization’ under Political Science, I started it for one year before I got Eric Moore Towers and I deferred it,that was I didn’t complete it,look there is no way,you would have a house,you have minority party in the house and you are saying you will not have minority leader and minority whip,it is not done by their discretion or choice,it is global standard whether they want to change their’s or they want to ignorantly or unknowingly do something that would affect them, I think they need to be corrected,I don’t want to go on the pages of Newspapers and Television saying what,Dipo Olorunninu be made the Minority leader and Victor Akande be made minority whip.

Aside the convention,that where you have majority there must be minority,in term of constitutionality are you aware the institution has the right to regulate itself,don’t you that legally speaking they can get away with that mien?

Let’s get to that stage,I don’t want to talk about the legality now because you are not a lawyer.

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