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No national exco in SDP – Olu Falae disowns Agunloye, Shonibare

Former Social Democratic Party (SDP) national chairman, Olu Falae has said the platform has no national executive committee.

Falae made the clarification on Friday when the new SDP exco members in Ondo visited him.

In attendance were the Chairman, Dele Thomas; Sola Agboola, State Secretary; ex-chairman Dele Ogunbameru and Korede Duyile.

Falae told them that since the party’s last convention in 2016, none has been conducted.

“All I want to say is that as of today, nobody can claim to be a legitimate member of the SDP national executive, not one.

“The last election was in March 2016, it expired in March 2020. Anybody claiming to be national chairman is just floating on water, you have no mandate.

“There is no basis at all, whether it’s (Supo) Shonibare or (Olu) Agunloye. My tenure was the only legitimate executive and it has expired”, he declared.

Falae, a former Finance Minister, was secretary to the military government of Ibrahim Babangida.

In April, Agunloye announced he had stepped down as national chairman and assumed the national secretary role.