Excerpts from:
AN
ADDRESS PRESENTED BY DR. OLU AGUNLOYE
AT DECAMPING Ceremony
Serial Mass
Mobilisation for ACN with examples from
Igbokoda, Ore,
Ondo, Ileoluji and Oba-Ile serial decamping
13
June, 2012
Decamping as tool
for Mass Mobilisation
Decamping
by politicians from other political parties to the Action Congress of Nigeria
has remained a major mass mobilisation tool to strengthen the party and has
been used significantly by Omoluabi Platform set up by Dr. Olu Agunloye to
contribute to a stronger ACN in Ondo State over the last one year. Publicised
decamping activities promote the party as well as swell the population of the
party with membership from the Labour Party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and
other parties. This has become crucial since ACN was rather relatively in a
weaker position at the beginning of year 2011.
Since
May 8, 2011 when Agunloye's Omoluabi Platform started the drive to strengthen
ACN in Ondo Stare, the Platform has midwife hundreds of decamping sessions
which have brought in thousands of new members into ACN. The decamping event of
13 June 2012 at Oba Ile is 207th formal decamping exercise under the auspices
of Omoluabi Platform within the ACN. This deccamping event is taking place in
Oba Ile in Akure North LG is in fact, an integral part of a strategic harvest
of new members facilitated by Omoluabi Platform through a PDP Chieftain, Prince
Adewale Omojuwa, former Chairman of OSOPADEC in Ondo State.
Initial
discussions and negotiations on Serial Mass Mobilisation facilitated by Omojuwa
started in October 2011 with several meetings in Erusu-Akoko, Akure, Okitipupa,
Oshogbo, Ila and Lagos with senior officers of Omoluabi Platform, and party
leaders in and outside of Ondo State. Consumation of meticulous groundwork began
to manifest publicly with the mega decamping rally led by Prince Omojuwa in
Igbokoda, Ilaje LG on the 28 April, 2012 when the Ilaje Prince decamped with
some 3,000 former PDP members. To add further to underscore the mass appeal
which Omoluabi Platform had generated in the public, an estimated 1,000
ex-militants under the banner of Movement for Democratic Front (MDR) also
decamped to ACN through Omoluabi Platform on same day at same event in
Igbokoda.
Further
mass mobilisation was achieved with an agreement with the Principal of Omoluabi
platform to recruit more new members into ACN through Omojuwa with the
decamping of PDP members in each of the 18 LGs. This decentralized Mobilisation
took off on Thursday, 7 June when some 1,000 were recruited into ACN in Ore, in
Odigbo LG. Next, some 2,000 new members decamped on the 8 June 2012 with the
former State Woman Leader of the PDP, Olori Folake Akinjobi-Omojuwa in Ondo
town, Ondo West LG virtually in the same with the incumbent governor of Ondo
State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.
Political
Analysts have described this as harvesting in the lion's den. The third in the
serial decamping was on the 9 June, 2012 in Ileoluji in Okeigbo-Ileoluji LG
when 2,000 PDP members led by Hon. Julius Bajewolu on Saturday and were received
into ACN by High Chief Adesoji, the Stae Chairman of ACN. The 4th in the series
of mega decamping is being witnessed today at Oba Ile in Akure North LG where
500 former PDP members, mainly women were led by Mrs. Taiwo Olayiwola popularly
known as MyTaiwo into ACN.
When the Omoluabi drive for a greater ACN commenced last year,
the focus was on the grassroots and equal opportunities for everyone across the
eighteen local government areas across the state wooing those who believe in
Omoluabi values of honour and integrity in governance as well as those who
demand a change for progress so that Ondo State will join the mainstream of
Yoruba politics and socio-economic integration of the West for sustainable
development. Thirteen months after, we have succeeded in attracting thousands
of new members into ACN and have made ACN more attractive and above all, ready
to win elections.
Today through the OMOLUABI PLATFORM alone, the ACN has made
tremendous progress with its membership drive across the state. In 2011, let me
say that OMOLUABI PLATFORM facilitated several harvests of thousands of new
members across the state into ACN from groups and other political interests. In
addition, this PLATFORM raised ACN flag, promoted the party's ideals at the
wards, local governments, senatorial districts in Ondo state.
Harvesting new members into ACN through the OMOLUABI or other
platforms, or groups or individual efforts remain the most direct way to give a
major boost to ACN to win the 2012 elections.
Source:
Omoluabi News Bulletin
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