Crisis Rocks Osun NLC As...

•Continued from page 2 than necessary. But the two groups have been making things difficult.

“The Araposo’s group does not have confidence in the caretaker commi ee; instead of rela ng with us, they went to the na onal secretariat to ask for elecon, but they were referred to the caretaker commi ee in the state.

“The Faniran group has confidence in the caretaker commi ee but they appear not ready for reconcilliataion. The two groups are making things difficult for me.

“Honestly, I don’t have interest in staying longer than necessary; the groups should let us resolve issues. If na onal secretariat put us here to oversee the affairs and make sure that the two warring facons come to terms, at least, they should give us the opportunity to give the feedback to the headquarters that the issue has been resolved.

“The make up of the caretaker committee is three from the Arapasopo side and three others from the Faniran side; I am the only one that does not belong to any group. I have been conveying mee ngs with the two groups; I am trying to broker peace between them, but it seems they are not ready for peaceful resolu on.

“In the last State Execu ve Council mee ng, my opening statement was that we don’t have interest of staying longer than this me, let us resolve this issue. But they said the constu on does not allow a caretaker committee to spend more than three months, and the mee ng was disrupted. They mobilised thugs to the premises of the meeting at GRA.

“I don’t have interest of staying longer in that office but normal thing should be done so that we can tell the na onal secretariat that we are ready for elec on in Osun. Even if they want to conduct it tomorrow, by God’s grace, I’m ready. They should stop the blackmail and name calling.

“To resolve the crisis is in their hands. If we sit down together and work in synergy, we can put a mail through to the na onal secretariat, instead of going on their own. My own is for everybody to be ready.”