The shock of national and local endorsements create identifty crisis for Osun APC as its lost credibility from the Presidency to key national caucus.
On Thursday, Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state had a verbal altercation over the installation of a billboard featuring the President Bola Tinubu and Adeleke campaigns in the town of Iwo.
In response to the APC’s criticism of Governor Ademola Adeleke for what it deemed as dirty politics and the fraudulent use of President Bola Tinubu’s image on a billboard alongside the governor’s own, Mr. Olawale Rasheed, a spokesman for Adeleke stated that the APC is extremely sad over the overwhelming wave of support for Governor Adeleke from all corners of the political spectrum and from people all over the country.
In a statement, Kola Olabisi, the APC’s Director of Media and Information, said, “The billboard bearing the inscription of Continuity of Progress’ sponsored by a faceless political body scripted as ‘Osun Leaders of Thought’ was sighted early yesterday which probably might have been erected in the early hours of Wednesday.
“This is the absurd playing of dirty politics taken too far as there could not be any acceptable reason for the sponsorship of the fraudulent billboard other than a flagrant display of irreverent attitude orchestrated by political Jews with a mission to compare the sky with the ground.
“We want to tell the whole world that we are vehemently condemning and dissociating our party from the nose and eye sore which exemplified political heresy in the heartland of the core progressive politics in the affected part of the state.
“No matter the antics being played by Governor Adeleke and his cohorts in this regard, the crafty efforts of the reactionary elements to dubiously sell their unsellable and difficult political product have refused to fly and subsequently ended up in a total fiasco.”
Reacting, Olawale stated that the APC’s unhappiness revealed its weakness in the Presidency and its dissatisfaction with Adeleke’s progress.
Olawale said, “The opposition is by now scrambling on what to say to another breakthrough recorded by Mr Governor – the deal on cultural tourism partnership at the British Musuem and the linkage between UK and Osun business through the Nigeria-UK Chamber of Commerce. The public awaits the lies and misinformation from Osun APC.
“The opposition is confused about groundswell of support for Governor Adeleke across party lines and across local and national audience.
“The public at home and abroad are impressed by the huge delivery of the administration across sectors. Interestingly, the appraisal of performance is coming from federal and non-governmental bodies.
“The shock of national and local endorsements create identifty crisis for Osun APC as its lost credibility from the Presidency to key national caucus.
“The opposition is therefore running amock, ranting over billboards from non-governmental groups, displaying ignorance over investment drive and wandering over reality of its unelectability.”