The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Get together on Sunday accused the ex-governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, of name-dropping President Bola Tinubu to disrupt governance within the state.
The celebration then warned that the state would open a can of worms in opposition to Oyetola, who’s at present Minister of Marine and Blue Financial system, except he stopped inflicting disruption to the state's operations.
However the opposition All Progressives Congress dismissed the allegations in opposition to Oyetola, describing him as a peace-loving particular person because it urged all those that had issues with safety businesses to resolve them with out involving the presidency.
The PDP, in an announcement signed by its chairman, Sunday Bisi, harassed that since shedding his re-election bid as governor, Oyetola has continued to pursue a failed agenda to make the state ungovernable by dropping the identify of the president to trigger political mischief to commit.
Bisi additionally urged the presidency to nip within the bud Oyetola's alleged anti-state and vindictive actions, which he stated are tarnishing Tinubu's picture.
Bisi stated: “Surprisingly, Mr. Oyetola has dropped the identify of Mr. President to control federal businesses to serve his egocentric curiosity. The opposite time, he hijacked the SMEDAN SME program to serve his personal faction of the APC, even leaving out different APC members, giving Mr. President a foul identify. He did the identical within the space of rice distribution which he reportedly took over from NEMA however shared along with his faction in opposition to reaching nearly all of the Osun individuals which the President clearly favored in keeping with the regulation.
“As an alternative of working to unite his celebration earlier than 2026, he’s busy making the state ungovernable, disrupting federal-state cooperation and utilizing federal businesses such because the FCT DSS to harass state officers.
:We’ve got discovered that Oyetola has used the FCT DSS to threaten the arrest of the spokesperson of the Governor of Osun State for discharging his statutory duties of projecting and selling Mr Governor.
Reacting, Chairman of Osun APC, Tajudeen Lawal, stated the minister had not collected meals gadgets from NEMA, including that with out Oyetola's intervention, there would have been a counter-attack in Osun following the killing of 30 APC members throughout the presidential election. Elections to the Nationwide Meeting.
He stated: “Oyetola isn’t recognized for violence. Osun APC is thought for its peaceable nature. These all occurred throughout Oyetola's reign as governor. This explains why, regardless of the try on his life throughout the EndSARS protest in Osogbo, Oyetola has by no means abused his workplace to intimidate or harass anybody.
“So if the spokesperson of Governor Ademola Adeleke or any chief of the PDP has issues with safety businesses, they need to discover a resolution on their very own and cease a budget blackmail by dragging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu right into a matter that has no has some foundation.
“The primary response was to disregard Sunday Bisi and his fellow vacationers. However having concerned different points together with the difficulty of NEMA fathom rice, the APC has been compelled to set the file straight. We’ve got all the time stated that Osun PDP leaders and their henchmen are pursuing propaganda and low-cost blackmail.
“A easy verify with NEMA would trigger their lies and claims to fall flat on their faces. Oyetola by no means acquired rice from NEMA. That is how they lie with impunity and with out verifiable details.
“To be clear, Oyetola has labored laborious to hold out the presidential mandate given to him by the President and he has proven outcomes for what he has carried out up to now. We aren’t recognized for violence. If somebody has issues with safety companies, he has to resolve them himself. Involving the presidency is affordable blackmail and has no foundation in any way.”
