Your Petition Rooted In Falsehood, Premised On Blackmail, APC Tells Shittu

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By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan

The crisis brewing in  the ruling  All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State over the 2019 governorship ticket has gotten messier as the party lashed out at the Minister of Communications for  reporting Governor Abiola Ajimobi, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigwe Oyegun.

Oyo APC, in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Strategy, Abdul-Azeez Olatunde made available to newsmen in Ibadan declared that the Minister’s allegations against Governor Ajimobi were deliberate falsehood because “his desperation for the governorship of Oyo State is driving him to work at cross – purpose with the overall well-being of APC in Oyo State.”

According to APC in the statement,  “contrary to the reckless insinuations made by the minister, the Oyo State APC is doing extremely well. Rather than loose any member to the opposition, the Oyo State APC under the leadership of Governor Abiola Ajimobi has been moving from strength to strength”

“Barely one month ago, the rank and file of the party membership experienced unprecedented growth and development because of a bumper harvest when notable political stakeholders from major opposition parties in the state declared in an open rally where they submitted themselves to the leadership of the governor. We must state very clearly that the decampees include a former governor, former deputy governor, former Senate Leader, serving and former members of the House of Representatives, former Senators, former Secretary to the State Government, former senatorial candidate, former State Chairman of the PDP, former state Secretary of the PDP, former Speaker of the House of Assembly, present and past state House of Assembly members, former commissioners and former local government chairmen and several others.” it said.

The party added that “it is quite saddening, highly disheartening and a monumental disservice to our party that a serving Minister of Oyo State origin will as a matter of habit stand the truth on its head and 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 Ajimobi and other leaders of our party have been working assiduously to develop our great party, Bayo Shittu in his characteristic manner has been moving from one local government to another sowing seeds of discord all in the name of his desperate and inordinate ambition to govern the state. Shittu was never part of the developmental process of our party. Having lost the governorship primary election in 2015, Shittu abandoned every activity geared towards victory for the party including the presidential campaign.”

APC alleged in the statement that the Minister ” 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 riping from where he did not sow”

It would be recalled that the Minister of Communications had in a petition accused Governor Abiola Ajimobi alleged the governor of plotting to destroy APC in the state.

Barrister Shittu  in a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu  and the APC National Chairman,  Chief John  Odigie Oyegun respectively said  the petition was to draw the attentions of the APC leadership to the alleged manipulations by Governor Ajimobi so as  to save the party from total disintegration in Oyo state.

 “I don’t have anything personal against Governor Ajimobi, but to stress the importance of him not destroying the very platform that made him governor. The signs that Ajimobi is set to destroy the party are glaring to political watchers, as the voting population in the state is becoming disillusioned more than ever before.

“I am constrained to bring to your notice the unsavory development in our great party in Oyo State and the unbecoming behaviour of Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who is expected to provide sound moral and exemplary leadership to the citizens of our dear State.

“This line of action becomes imperative in view of the sad turn of events in Oyo State APC. It is an open secret that the fortunes of APC has nosedived in the state due to Governor Ajimobi’s undue arrogance, grandstanding, nepotism, caustic and unguarded utterances and creating unnecessary divisions among party leaders and members thereby balkanising the party along group lines.”

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