By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Oyo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday, asked Governor Seyi Makinde to forget about currying the President elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s support in the March 18 governorship election
Oyo APC in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan by its Publicity Secretary, Comrade Wale Sadare, declared that the President elect is comfortable with the choice of Senator Teslim Folarin as the party’s governorship candidate in the state and will support him.
The party stressed that Senator Folarin as the party’s governorship candidate, ” is the person the President elect, Asiwaju Tinubu would work with to uplift Oyo State” and that Gov Makinde should forget about the alleged claim that he had an agreement of partnership on the ongoing general election with the President-elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
” For the avoidance of doubt, Sen. Tinubu is abreast of happenings in Oyo State’s political space and he is comfortable with the choice of Sen. Teslim Folarin as the next governor of the Pacesetter and the person with him he would work to uplift our dear state.” he said
Oyo APC added, ” again, we make bold to ask whether it is Gov. Makinde who caused Oyo to be the state which gave Sen. Bola Tinubu the highest number of delegate votes at the APC presidential primary last year.
” We also put it to the governor and his sympathizers to bring out any media material or document in which he (Makinde) mentioned Tinubu as his choice presidential candidate before the declaration of poll results by INEC even as they have not produced the agreement they claim Asiwaju signed with the G5 governors.”
It further accused Governor Makinde of an alleged, ” overt and covert but futile efforts geared towards creating false impression about being instrumental to the emergence of Sen. Tinubu as the President-elect with a view to positioning himself for a soft landing at the next poll coming up this Saturday”.
Oyo APC maintained, “rather than respond to the challenge which we threw last week on this same subject matter, Gov. Makinde has continued to hide behind a finger by sponsoring some misguided individuals to spread the fake news about a purported agreement between the President-elect and the five aggrieved PDP governors referred to as G5. Gov.
“Makinde’s men mischievously tell the fake story of him delivering Oyo State to Sen. Tinubu on February 25 whereas, they do not have a single fact to back up their claims. There are records of efforts put up by Oyo APC chieftains such as Sen. Teslim Folarin, Hon. Isaac Omodewu, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, Dr. Fola Akinosun, Prof. Abideen Olaiya among others who visited all the media houses in the state to promote the candidature of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu while we also have it on record how Gov. Makinde’s media handlers used every available opportunity to run down the presidential candidate of the APC.”
