The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged its members and the public to discountenance the information that Governor Ademola Adeleke and his loyalists are defecting into the party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In a statement on Sunday, APC’s Director of Media and Information in the state, Mogaji Kola Olabisi said:
‘We want to state categorically and unequivocally that it is a lie from the pit of hell being told by the governor and his lieutenants that the state helmsman has defected into our party as nothing of such is happening or being contemplated at all the levels of our party.
‘At no time was there any pressure from the presidency that Governor Adeleke should defect into our party as it has been the rumour by the governor’s lieutenants and his co-travellers.
‘It is not true that Governor Adeleke has joined the Osun State chapter of the APC as there are constitutional hurdles that are needed to be crossed for such endeavour to be accomplished.
‘We can observe that some of the lieutenants and footsoldiers of Governor Ademola have become ecstatic beyond imagination because of the imaginary defection of their principal which at this moment still remains within the realm of speculation.
‘It is an impossible utopia for a governor to defect into our party without the knowledge of its National Chairman, Ali Dalori, Chief Bisi Akande, State Leader, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, state chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, the Agba Osun and others.
‘It is indeed funny that it’s our party that had received persistent badmouthing from the gatecrashers into the Bola Ige House who have now turned the most viable opposition party in the state into a beautiful bride.
‘The nauseating development is the constant lies being reeled out by the governor’s lieutenants and social media emergency writers that it was the forward-looking, hardworking and proactive President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has been making overtures to Governor Adeleke which is nothing but a mere concoction to portray and create resemblance of importance to the governor.
‘Without minding whose ox is gored, we make bold to state for the upteenth time that Governor Adeleke hasn’t joined our party while we are assuring our teeming members and supporters that our party is intact and all is well with it’.
