ACN has vindicated us on Aregbesola's religious extremism —PDP

Posted by Mgbenka at Sunday, April 22, 2012 |

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest has described comments attributed to the spokesperson of the Osun State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Kunle Oyatomi, in the Saturday Sun newspaper of yesterday as a vindication of its stand on the plot to disintegrate Nigeria and bring religious extremism to Osun State by the state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola.

The party, in a statement, said “with the ACN spokesperson's justification of the introduction of hijab in the Osun State public schools, change of the state's constitutionally recognised name to State of Osun, introduction of new anthem and coat of arm, among others, it should now be clear to discerning minds that Aregbesola was planing against the unity of Nigeria."

According to the statement issued by the PDP zonal publicity secretary, Hon. Kayode Babade, “Nigerians no longer need to look too far as to the sinister motives that we have said Aregbesola has against the corporate existence of Nigeria since it has been confirmed through his party's spokesperson.”
The statement reads: “Answering question on the introduction of hijab, the ACN spokesperson, Kunle Oyatomi, said; ‘wearing of hijab in Yoruba land is not strange. Our mothers wear hijab and our sisters wear hijab.’

“And the question Nigerians must ask Aregbesola and his bunch of fundamentalists is whether wearing of hijab has ever been made compulsory in any public school in Yoruba Land?
“Again, on the change of Osun State to State of Osun, Oyatomi posited that; Osun State and State of Osun mean the same thing. He also went further to say that a state like Lagos can decide to change its name to Eko because, “it is the white man, who gave it the name Lagos. We know it as Eko.”