The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has urged the Peoples Democratic Party Elders’ Forum to address the challenges currently besetting the party.
Makinde gave the charge on Monday, while inaugurating the 7-man PDP steering committee at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan.
The governor told the members of the committee to address all issues that are generating concerns within the fold.
“The task before this committee is to assist us to get to the roots of all the challenges with our party, the PDP in Oyo state. A failure is hard to take, but success is harder to manage because expectations were quite high.
“It has been one year and about two weeks in office in this administration and the expectations of some of our party members have not been met either rightly or wrongly. Some have legitimate requests and expectations, but some are just being used by some forces outside of our party against the party.
“So, we need to sieve the chaff from the wheat, and where our members have legitimate expectations and entitlements, I want all that to be brought out so that we can address the issues. On that note, I pronounce this committee inaugurated,” he said.
The chairman of the committee, Dr. Saka Balogun, said, “It is good to be requested to do what one otherwise would have loved to do before now, because the commission has been christened a steering committee to look into the roots of some agitations here and there.
“Some have a legitimate right to feel the way they feel. Some have legitimate ambitions, having waited behind the fence for eight years during the governance of the previous administration. I do not run down anybody or institution, but certainly, the experience of many of us and more of the masses was nothing to write about in the last administration.
“There were very high expectations when this government came into office, and I have said it a number of times that this government is delivering quality service. People who have been requested to come into the fold to join the governor to administer, have been high calibre people.
“It is not for me to give one-man assessment of the problems, but some of the problems we already know.”
