ADVERTISEMENT
The Sun Nigeria
  • Home
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun
No Result
View All Result
The Sun Nigeria
No Result
View All Result
Home Politics

Oyo: PDP, APC, ADC clash over Makinde’s first-year achievements, 2019 coalition talks

20th June 2020
in Politics
0
Oyo: PDP, APC, ADC clash over Makinde's first-year achievements, 2019 coalition talks

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde

0
SHARES
635
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Congress (APC) and the African Democratic (ADC) in Oyo State engaged in a trade of words on Saturday over the achievements of Governor Seyi Makinde in his first year in office.

The first to fire the salvo is the governorship candidate of APC during the 2019 general elections in the state, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, who remarked on a programme, Political Circuit, on Fresh FM, Ibadan, that the Pacesetter State had retrogressed under Makinde in the past one year.

Adelabu, a retired deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), also alleged that the gubernatorial candidate of ADC, Olufemi Lanlehin, who dropped his ambition and joined the coalition that brought Makinde to power in 2019, went into negotiation with him, but the two of them could not agree. Lanlehin, however, in his swift response, said Adelabu had lied against him, and it was calculated to tarnish his image.

According to Adelabu, it was unfair to compare the first-year administration of Makinde to the eight years that the previous governor, Abiola Ajimobi. While contending that the Makinde administration has done nothing tangible, he further argued that in terms of security, ‘it is the impact that you are going to measure and of late we have been seeing pockets of crimes – car snatching and robbery in the last one year – that did not happen in the eight years of Ajimobi.

‘We have seen the return of area boys. Ekugbemi vs Ebila. These are people that were dead during the eight years of Ajimobi. In all the local areas now, go there you will see fights. In fact, almost every night, armed robbers go to those areas. Go to Kudeti, Popo, you will see that, and rape cases in Oyo State too. In fact, we are getting notorious among the comity of states. The rape case in Oyo State is higher than any other state in Nigeria.

‘There is no night economy in Oyo State anymore because people now live in fear, even before the COVID-19 started. It was not what it was when Ajimobi was there anymore,’ he said as he accused Makinde of re-commissioning of projects already commissioned before Ajimobi left power, and that ‘what we are seeing now is just the result of a sudden and unexpected victory of their party.’

But the Publicity Secretary of PDP in Oyo State, Akeem Olatunji, in a telephone chat with our correspondent, described Adelabu’s remarks as the ‘vituperation of a bad loser,’ adding that Adelabu spoke from the hangovers of the last governorship election that he lost to Governor Makinde, advising him to ‘eschew bitterness and embrace the realities.’

He argued that all the submissions of Adelabu on the radio programme were lies geared towards his ambition for 2023 general elections, adding that ‘we are not playing the politics of 2023 now. We are focused on delivering good governance to the good people of Oyo State.

‘The evidence is there that Governor Makinde initiated many new projects and he also completed many of the projects that were either abandoned or not yet completed by the past administration of APC because governance is a continuum. We are not playing politics of bitterness. We are focused on good governance.

‘One of the examples of projects initiated by Governor Makinde is the ongoing construction of Apete-Awotan-Akufo Road, which was not attended to for eight years of APC administration in the state, despite the repeated pleas by residents of the area. Also, the work is ongoing on the Awotan dumpsite, which before the intervention of the incumbent administration constituted a nuisance to residents of the area as people that have boreholes and wells in the area could not use water from the facilities based on contamination from the dumpsite.’

In his response, Lanlehin told Adelabu: ‘I want to categorically put on record, for the sake of posterity, and like I did in the text message I sent to the programme, that ‘I did not negotiate with Chief Bayo Adelabu, either directly or indirectly. In fact, it was Dr Kayode Fayemi, the Ekiti State governor, who approached me on his behalf, but I respectfully turned him down, without much ado.’

‘Despite ongoing coalition talks at that time, I still gave audience to Governor Fayemi, a man for whom l have a great deal of respect, and who I’d had a wonderful relationship with, right from our days in NADECO. I respectfully turned down his passionate plea that I aligned with Bayo Adelabu and the APC.

‘Despite my progressive roots, which Governor Fayemi alluded to in that meeting, l explained to him my reasons for turning him, and indeed, Adelabu down. The crux of our discussion then, was that every politics is local and that it was in the best interest of Oyo State at that time of its history, that I coalesced with Engr Seyi Makinde, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to win the gubernatorial election.

‘I wish to conclude that despite the advertised failings of post-victory agreements, I sincerely do not have any regrets for being an active participant in the coalition that brought in Engr Seyi Makinde, as it was honestly, the best decision, in those circumstances, and sincerely, in the interest of Oyo State.’

David

David

Sun News Online team

Related Posts

Attacks on Nigeria: Gbajabiamila leaves for Ghana
Politics

Reps, Gbajabiamila and politics of defection

4th March 2021
Loan fraud: Aggrieved rice farmers protest in Abia
Politics

2023: Abia politicians must respect zoning –Apugo

4th March 2021
Edo APC accuses governor of operating without commissioners for 3 months
National

Edo APC accuses governor of operating without commissioners for 3 months

3rd March 2021
Next Post
Edo council chair Ogbemudia dumps APC in solidarity with Obaseki

Edo council chair Ogbemudia dumps APC in solidarity with Obaseki

NGF intervenes, doctors strike called-off

NGF intervenes, doctors strike called-off

Kano: Governor orders strict enforcement of use of face masks

Kano: Governor orders strict enforcement of use of face masks

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Highlights

CAF opens bidding for Women’s Champions League 2021 host country

4 men in court for allegedly breaking into Police College Lagos

NYSC DG threatens to arrest, prosecute fake corps members

Breaking: Buhari, Osinbajo, to be vaccinated publicly on Saturday

Rwanda earmarks $51m to buy COVID-19 vaccines

Woman in court for allegedly sending fake bank alert

Trending

Police arrest man for murder of wife in Anambra
News

Anambra: Police arrest husband for murdering wife

4th March 2021
0

From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha Police have arrested a 35-year-old man Kingsley Igwe in Anambra State for...

Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna, and AstraZeneca

EU medicines agency begins testing of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine

4th March 2021

NGOs condemn use of tax payers money for ransom

4th March 2021
CAF opens bidding for Women’s Champions League 2021 host country

CAF opens bidding for Women’s Champions League 2021 host country

4th March 2021
4 men in court for allegedly breaking into Police College Lagos

4 men in court for allegedly breaking into Police College Lagos

4th March 2021

Follow us on social media:

Categories

  • Abuja Metro
  • Arts
  • Broken Tongues
  • Business
  • Business Week
  • Cartoons
  • Citizen Joe
  • Columns
  • Cover
  • Culture
  • Duro Onabule
  • Editorial
  • Education Review
  • Effect
  • Elections
  • Entertainment
  • Events
  • Features
  • Femi Adesina
  • Food & Drinks
  • Frank Talk
  • Funke Egbemode
  • Gallery
  • Global Square by Kenneth Okonkwo
  • Health
  • Insights
  • Kalu Leadership Series
  • Kunle Solaja
  • Kunle Solaja
  • Letters
  • Lifeline
  • Lifestyle
  • Literary Review
  • Marketing Matters
  • Muiz Banire
  • National
  • News
  • Offside Musings
  • Opinion
  • oriental news
  • Politics
  • Press Release
  • PressClips
  • Public Sphere
  • Ralph Egbu
  • Shola Oshunkeye
  • Sideview
  • South-west Magazine
  • Sponsored Post
  • Sporting Sun
  • Sports
  • Sun Girl
  • Tea Time
  • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
  • The Sun Awards Live
  • The Sun TV
  • Thoughts & Talks
  • Time Out
  • Today's cover
  • Tola Adeniyi
  • Travel
  • Travel & Tourism
  • Trending
  • TSWeekend
  • Turf Game
  • Uncategorized
  • Updates
  • Views from Abroad
  • Voices
  • World
  • World News
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Paper Ad Rate
  • Online Ad Rate
  • The Team
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy

© 2019 The Sun Nigeria - Managed by Netsera.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun

© 2019 The Sun Nigeria - Managed by Netsera.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist