Tinubu, S/West APC govs shun inauguration of Buhari/Osinbajo campaign office in Ibadan
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and all the South-West APC governors on Saturday boycotted inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari, Osinbajo South West campaign office organised by the Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu in Ibadan.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony the Minister accused Oyo State Governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi of insincerity.
It was observed that the governor who was billed to be [Shittu] the Chief Host did not attend the inauguration ceremony and was he represented.
It was learnt that the governor had to summon the leadership of the party from a meeting in Ibadan so that they would not be able to attend the inauguration.
Apparently reacting to allegation by some cross section of people from Saki that he (Shittu) had threatened to pull down the post office in the town, he said “that is one of the lies of Ajimobi”.
Meanwhile, former Abia State governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu has called for the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari and national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun in the crisis.
The former governor of Abia State” said for us, we, I and former Senate President, Ken Nnamani are students of preaching peace and unity. We are students, who say the truth.
We are students, who are no afraid of telling people what we feel that is not right. Everybody in this hall will agree with us that there is a break in the communication between our governor and the minister.
We don’t want that to continue. “If anybody inside this house today in the University of Ibadan would say it is good for these two elephants to continue quarrelling, I and my senior brother would disagree that they should not be quarrelling,” he said.
According to him, the minister and the governor should be the best of friends, “And we are going to make that happen. “We have already agreed with the Minister of Health, and my brother, former senate president, that we are going to take it upon ourselves to the highest level of this party.
If both of them are quarreling, there will be no peace and progress in this state. “We are going to be fighting a very big party, a party that knows how to do it.
We don’t want to lose any vote in Oyo State. We don’t want to lose one single sympathy here.
“I cannot understand, the minister is very close to me and the governor is very close to me. They are also very close to Ken Nnamani.
“We came here to honour both of them. I am slightly not very happy what I have seen here that the governor is not here, the party officials are not here, the commissioners are not here, the main things that will make APC what they supposed to be here please.
They are not here. “I am not a man that you will keep inside a room, and ask not to say the truth. Everybody knows that even what people are afraid to say, I will say it because it is only the truth that can set us free.
When you leave the truth, we will suffer. “I have spoken to the Minister of Communication, I told him I wasn’t very happy. Immediately I came, both the Minister of Health and former senate president whispered to me that the governor is not here.
“I said the governor is going to Lagos this afternoon. This is what the Chief of Staff told my aide, after this programme, I will go and drink water with him,” Orji said.
