Elder Wole Oyelese, ex-minister of Power and Senator Teslim Folarin are best of friends and top members of the PDP in Oyo State. Now the bosom friends of so many years are now sworn enemies since December 8th 2014 when PDP primaries took place in Ibadan, Oyo State. The ex-minister’s senatorial ambition crashed at the primaries. The ex-minister told journalists in Ibadan that Senator Teslim Folarin who emerged the PDP guber candidate for Oyo State at the primaries is nothing but a traitor.
Hear him: “I trusted Sen. Teslim Folarin as it was not unusual in politics to get nomination even without primaries. But as it finally turned out, not even one of the delegates voted for me which was the issue I raised with him before being assured the factional statutory delegates voted for their factional aspirants. This is terrible and undeserved betrayal by Folarin. It’s also a dangerous step for him as a candidate who is hard to sell for the people of Oyo. What he did to me he also did to Wole Adegoke who he schemed out with his factional delegates to pave way for the third member of group for the speakership position. It is a pity that Folarin would choose to betray me of all people. It is on record that for his emergence as senator in 2003 I got the ticket for him on a platter of gold as I did for Adegoke for the House of Representatives. We will wait to see how it will end up now and in 2015. It is necessary for people to have the true picture so as to know what took place in Oyo Central Senatorial District and position of things in Oyo PDP. It is unfortunate that as some of us who have a lot at stake as founding fathers don’t want to see the house they built destroyed. Some others who are opportunists are pulling down the house on themselves”.