EKITI PDP NEW MEDIA TEAM DISSOCIATES SELF FROM LERE OLAYINKA ‘CONSENTED RAPE’ COMMENT. By Ishola Dauda
Members of Ekiti State PDP new media team said they have dissociated themselves from their leader Lere Olayinka on the trending issue of “consented rape” credited to him.
Olayinka, who is the media aide to the former governor of the state, Ayo Fayose is currently under fire on Twitter for referring to the rape case involving COZA Pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo and Timi Dakolo‘s wife, Busola as “consented rape”.
Mrs Dakolo in an interview with Chude Jideonwo on YNaija TV revealed that as a teenager in the Divine Delight Club, the precursor to COZA, she was groomed and raped by the pastor.
The mother of three said it happened while she was a 16-year-old secondary school student living with her parents in Ilorin, Kwara State.
Mr Olayinka wrote on Twitter on Friday that it appeared to him that it was consented, apparently dismissing Dakolo’s allegation.
However, in another twist, in a statement personally signed by the group coordinator of Ekiti State PDP new media team, Bola Agboola, condemned the shameful tweet of Lere Olayinka and revealed the group has been battling with the eye-service approach of Lere Olayinka.
“We have been telling Lere to always refrain himself from public discussion where intellectual issues that have to do with rape are being discussed, but he won’t listen. We have been managing his incompetence as foisted on us by Ex-gov Fayose. Lere does not have the requisite qualification to lead us then, but owing to the ex-gov’s interest, we decided to accept our fate by working with Lere.
Bola Agboola continued, ” Even when we worked together as a team under Fayose, we didn’t allow him to write press statements on our behalf. What we did was to hire a trained journalist in the person of Mr Adogoke Oluwaseyi, to write our position on relevant issues, even for Lere.
Lere who claimed to have graduated with an Oluwole diploma certificate from Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ogba, Lagos, can’t speak fluent English or write good English without committing grammatical errors.
“No matter how we see issues, rape is rape, Agboola said, adding that “there is nothing as consented rape.”
Another member of the group, Debola Akingbade said, “I was not surprised at his shameful tweet on COZA’s issue. He doesn’t think before he talks. Thus has been our complain as a team. He is also a bad example of a leader to work with then, because he is in the habit of always committing every known moral vice.”