Your Claim As Oyo APC Chieftain Shameful, Fraudulent – Youth Group Knocks Bayo Adelabu
Your Claim As Oyo APC Chieftain Shameful, Fraudulent – Youth Group Knocks Bayo Adelabu.
A youth group within the All Progressives Congress in Oyo state, The United Democrats(TUD), has cautioned the gubernatorial candidate of the Accord Party in the last general election, Oloye Adebayo Adelabu, against going ahead with an alleged plan to mislead the public on his recent political activities which were directed at ruining the chances of all APC candidates at the just concluded polls.
Adelabu, who left the APC for Accord Party in protest last year after losing the gubernatorial ticket of the broom party to Senator Teslim Folarin, was quoted in the media on Friday to have referred to himself as an APC chieftain in Oyo state and this has elicited reactions from many quarters including the camp of political pundits and stakeholders.
The United Democrats(TUD), while reacting to the development, in a statement issued and jointly signed by its acting Coordinator, Mr. Adediran Alao and Secretary, Comrade Akeem Ishola, took a swipe at the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, describing his claim as shameful, reckless and unfortunate.
“We have noticed that some unscrupulous political players in the state are now trying to make some false claims as it relates to their recent activities which backfired against their expectations. Among them are those who failed to look at the picture at the time of APC primaries, when they threw cautions away and abandoned the party APC, simply because they failed to secure party tickets.
“The same desperados did not only leave the broom party for PDP, Accord, Labour Party and others, they campaigned vigorously against all APC candidates, including Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu who was then the presidential candidate, without considering the fact that he had benefitted them in one way or the other.
“Notable among these characters is Oloye Bayo Adelabu (Penkelemesi), who defected to Accord Party and spared no effort to work for the success of his new party. In doing this, he toured virtually all the media houses in town as he became vociferous against the APC.
“The same man called APC and its candidates many unprintable names with a view to running them aground. It is also on record that he specifically dissociated himself from Sen. Bola Tinubu, on several occasions, as he kept telling the world that nobody could contest and win any poll on the APC platform.
“It then beat our imagination that Mr. Adelabu can now turn round and lay claims to being a chieftain of a party he recently dubbed a cancer. Adelabu’s Accord party fielded one Prof. Christopher Imumolen against Sen. Bola Tinubu, while Adelabu and his party men garnered him a reasonable number of votes on February 25, 2023.
“It is therefore immoral for Adelabu to now put a bold face and start laying claim to being a member of the APC when he has not resigned his membership of the Accord Party.” The group maintained.
