The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Campaign Council
for Ondo Governorship Election, on Monday, described the attempt by the state
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to compare himself to the highly revered statesman,
Obafemi Awolowo, as sacrilegious, profane and extremely disrespectful.
PDP made the remark while describing Akeredolu, the All
Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate as a failed governor.
The party stated this in a statement signed by its National
Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
According to Ologbondiyan: “PDP asserts that Akeredolu can
never and will never be remembered like Chief Awolowo, the great national
leading light, but will be remembered, after his defeat at the poll on
Saturday, as that self serving governor who failed and betrayed his people when
they needed him the most.
“Governor Akeredolu’s pathetic attempt to use the name of
Awolowo to beguile the Ondo people is indeed the highest desecration of the
name and memory of the late patriot, who represents light, progressivism,
development, welfarism, unity and social uprightness, which are manifestly
lacking in Akeredolu’s brand of politics.
“Of course, Governor Akeredolu is at best the opposite of
Awolowo, Awolowo built schools, Akeredolu ran them down; Awolowo granted free
education, Akeredolu increased school fees by more than 100 percent, Awolowo
empowered the people, Akeredolu deprived and impoverished them,
Awolowo built infrastructure and grew the economy, Akeredolu
entrenched corruption and wrecked the economy of his state.
“Awolowo believed in, cared for and respected the people but
Akeredolu, in his arrogance, exposed his disdain for the people by declaring
them his “enemies for life”.
“Akeredolu should know that Awolowo never made fake
promises; never deprived the people. Awolowo’s brand of politics was not about
deception, highhandedness and recourse to violence as being witnessed in the
Akeredolu regime. Rather, Awo made the good of the people the symbol and focus
of his politics.”
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