The leadership crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State on Friday further deepened with the swearing-in of a factional chairman, Alhaji Abu Gbadamosi.
The inauguration of the parallel state executive members was held at Trans Wonderland Plc, popularly known as Amusement Park, Bodija, Ibadan.
The oath was administered on Gbadamosi by a legal practitioner, Kehinde Owoade of MFN chambers.
After taking his oath, Gbadamosi also administered the oath of office on the party’s chairmen in all the 33 local government areas of the state.
It will be recalled that major stakeholders of the party had unanimously rejected the inauguration of Isaac Omodewu as state chairman of the party by the National Secretariat of the party.
The rejection of Omodewu was hinged on the fact that the congress that produced him (Omodewu) was flawed and had earlier been rejected by the national caretaker committee of the party.
Party chieftains including Senator Ayo Adeseun, among others, witnessed Gbadamosi’s inauguration.
Speaking after administering oath on the 33 local government chairmen of the party, Gbadamosi said he hasn’t committed any crime by taking the oath of office as Oyo APC chairman.
He said: “What Omodewu is doing is not allowed because we agreed on consensus. That is the arrangement our national leaders actually introduced and Omodewu was actually not appointed for anything, he took over from the top.
“The post was not zoned to his local government, it was zoned to Kajola Local Government, not Itesiwaju. In consensus, when you are not able to agree, you introduce an election.
“Election was conducted, Omodewu’s local government (Itesiwaju) scored two, the other local government scored three while Kajola scored 16. You cannot actually build something on nothing. The process that led to his emergence was illegal.”