The All Progressives Congress,
APC, in Oyo state, on Thursday described the Minister of Communications,
Adebayo Shittu’s petition to the national leadership of the party as full of
lies.
The APC further said the Minister
was an enemy of the state for writing such petition to President Muhammadu
Buhari, Bolaji Ahmed Tinubu and John Odigie-Oyegun against Governor Abiola
Ajimobi.
In his petition, the minister
said he ran into trouble with Ajimobi because he frustrated the governor’s
attempt to remove unjustly the APC Chairman in the Ido Local Government Area of
the state, who he simply identified as Pastor Akintokun.
He also claimed that the governor
was not happy that he accepted the chieftaincy title of Agba – Akin Afiwagboye
from the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, among other claims.
But the state’s chapter of the
APC, in a statement signed by its Director, Media and Strategy, Dr. Abdul-Azeez
Olatunde said that Shittu’s claims were ‘baseless and fallacious.’
The statement said, “Contrary to
the reckless insinuations made by the minister, the APC is doing extremely well
in the state. Rather than lose any member to the opposition, the state APC
under the leadership of Governor Ajimobi has been moving from strength to
strength.
“Barely one month ago, the rank
and file of the party membership, which has continued to experience
unprecedented growth and development, witnessed a bumper harvest when notable
political stakeholders from major opposition parties in the state defected to
the APC in an open rally and submitted themselves to the leadership of the
governor.
“It is quite saddening, highly
disheartening and a monumental disservice to our party that a serving minister
of Oyo State origin will close his eyes to the reality of the rising political
profile of not only our party but also of our leader. The fact is that his
petition is rooted in falsehood and premised on cheap blackmail.
“It must be stated that while
Governor Ajimobi and other leaders of our party have been working assiduously
to develop our great party, Shittu in his characteristic manner has been moving
from one local government to another sowing the seeds of discord all in the
name of his desperate and inordinate ambition to govern the state.
“He was never part of the
developmental process of our party. Having lost the governorship primary in
2015 , Shittu abandoned every activity geared towards the victory of the party
including the presidential campaign.
“He further took the party to
court on the eve of the 2015 governorship election and was working for the
opposition Accord Party where his former boss and benefactor contested the
governorship election. Today, he is reaping from where he did not sow.”
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