Chairmen from 10 Local Governments Areas and Local Council Development Authority (LCDAs) in Oke-Ogun geo-political zone in Oyo State, have accused the Minister of Communication, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, of causing tension and disaffection in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
The council helmsmen while reacting to a letter written by Mr. Shittu where he reported Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the state to President Muhammadu Buhari, APC National Chairman and National Leader, Chief John Odigie Oyegun and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu respectively on Friday declared that the minister’s actions “are injurious to the success of the party”.
The council bosses in a statement signed by Caretaker Chairmen of Iwa LCDA and Oorelope Local Government Area, Sulaimon Ajani and Okunlade Samuel respectively on behalf of their colleagues, noted that contrary to Shittu’s claim, APC under the leadership of Governor Abiola Ajimobi “has continued to wax stronger and has become the only hope for the masses in the state as a result of the visionary leadership provided by the governor”.
They then disclosed that Shittu’s actions and utterances had been generating undue tension and promoting bitterness within Oyo APC.
They noted that “The minister’s actions, rather than the governor’s, have, indeed, been destroying the APC.
“We, the chairmen of the 10 local governments in Oke-Ogun, which Alhaji Adebayo Shittu hailed from, have watched with bewilderment the unguarded utterances and negative tendencies of the minister in unnecessarily opposing the governor and the progress of the party.
“We would not have joined issues with the minister for his baseless and apparently false claim that the governor has been creating divisions in the APC and destroying the party, but there is need to set the record straight so that the national leadership of the party will know that it is the minister who has been disrupting the peace in the party with his actions and utterances”.
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