Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has challenged the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, to stop trying to destabilise the Southwest if he loves President Bola Tinubu.
Adeleke was reacting to Ganduje’s remarks about the Southwest after the Ondo State governorship election.
Ganduje had said Osun and Oyo states are APC’s next target after the party emerged victorious in the Ondo State governorship election.
Reacting, the governor argued that Ganduje’s statement was intended to destabilise the southwest region and incite conflict.
A statement by Adeleke’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, reads partly: “As a well-read politician, one would have expected Dr Ganduje to know that electoral contests depend mostly on local indexes and factors and what was obtained in Edo and Ondo is surely different from political facts on the ground in Osun State.
“If Dr Ganduje truly loves Mr President, why is he pushing to destabilise the president’s home zone through open threats to violate electoral law and deny the electorate their rights to vote and be voted for?
“By threatening to hijack opposition states, the APC leader is undermining the general consensus among Yoruba people, which accepts Mr President as their own irrespective of political differences.
“If however the statement of the APC leader is borne out of ignorance, he is invited to study Osun politics to get better informed of the dynamics of this state’s politics and to appreciate that what works in Edo and Ondo cannot play out here for several reasons.”
