With luminaries such as Bukola Saraki now Senate President Yakubu Dogara Speaker of the House of Representatives as well as Rabiu Kwankwaso and Olagunsoye Oyinlola the former Governors of Kano and Osun States respectively they formed a powerful faction...
That was the nub of Obasanjo's call for a 'Coalition for Nigeria' a political movement that was launched on 31 January by Donald Duke a former PDP governor of Cross River State and Olagunsoye Oyinlola a former PDP governor of Osun State...
The faction is now formally led by Baraje as Chairman with Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as National Secretary...
• Erelu Olusola Obada (Minister of State for Defence) was deputy to Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola the former Osun State Governor who is now the National Secretary of the New PDP...
They announced that Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola would be National Secretary of what they called the ‘New PDP' and Abubakar Kawu Baraje would be its National Chairman...
• Olagunsoye Oyinlola newly elected PDP Secretary; ex-Governor Osun State in the south-west...
Yet the PDP is losing its political dominance especially in the south: Kayode Fayemi of the ACN overturned the 2007 election of the PDP's Segun Oni as Governor of Ekiti State in an epic legal battle and was sworn in on 16 October; on 26 November the ACN's Rauf Aregbesola was declared Governor of Osun State after the courts overturned the election of the PDP's Olagunsoye Oyinlola; and Great Ovedje Ogboru of the Democratic People's Party has persuaded the courts to annul the governorship election of the PDP's Emmanuel Uduaghan in Delta State...
In Osun State the AC candidate Rauf Aregbesola is challenging the election of the PDP's Colonel Olagunsoye Oyinlola...
On 15 July it upheld the election of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the PDP...
Governors under EFCC scrutiny include: James Ibori (Delta); Lucky Igbinedion (Edo); Ayo Fayose (Ekiti); Bonnie Haruna (Adamawa); Gbenga Daniel (Ogun); Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Osun); Adamu Aleiro (Kebbi); Attahiru Bafarawa (Sokoto); Saminu Ibrahim Turaki (Jigawa); Ahmad Makarfi (Kaduna); Goodluck Jonathan (Bayelsa); Chimaraoke Nnamani (Enugu); Achike Udenwa (Imo); Sam Egwu (Ebonyi); and Bola Tinubu (Lagos)...
