Ondo APC Absolves Akeredolu From Party Crisis

By Niyi Olutunde, Akure

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has absolved the state Governor, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu from the crisis rocking the party in the state.

It would be recalled that the senator representing Ondo North senatorial district, Prof. Ajayi Boroffice had alleged that Governor Akeredolu was behind the crisis in the party, accusing the Governor of using his office to fuel internal crisis within the party.

But in a statement issued on Tuesday by the APC Director of Publicity, Mr Steve Otaloro said the governor does not in any way intervene in the affairs of the party, stressing that the party affairs is solely run by the leadership of the party in the state led by Mr. Ade Adetimehin.

He said “It is sheer figment of Borofice’s imagination to have claimed
that people are leaving our party when in fact people are defecting to our party in droves everyday to the point that the entire party fabrics of the opposition in the state have been more or less collapsed into our party.”

The statement reads “Borofice, no doubt, is alone in this illusion that critical mass of our party leadership and members are leaving which could best be described as a product of a demented brain informed by his desperate ambition to govern the state at all costs.

This same ambition had earlier pitched him against his former party leader and governor in the Labour Party (LP).

“It would baffle any member of the party in the state to hear Borofice claiming to have worked tirelessly for the governor to win the election when he never at anytime appeared at the electioneering campaigns of the governor.

“This is a senator who is at National Assembly on the platform of APC, yet he’s fighting the governor and the party chairman in the state, as well as contravening the decision of the National leadership of the party led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. One wonders what he really wants.

“It beats one’s imagination if Senator Borofice could be referring to the governor as a controversial candidate after one year in office and still claims to have worked tirelessly and voted for him. It also remains irreconcilable why Borofice who sent a congratulatory message to the governor through the media after his victory at the poll did not attend the inauguration ceremony of the governor.

“At this point, I think it is expedient to ask Borofice to swear by the God he serves that he truly worked and voted for Akeredolu at the poll. Senator Borofice should know that it is God who chooses who should lead His people, bearing in mind that Akeredolu is the governor of the state today despite the fact he (Borofice) and his cohorts
worked tirelessly against the victory of our great party, APC, at the Ondo State governorship poll held on the November 26, 2016.

“It is incontrovertible that Borofice who came distant fourth in the party primaries immediately ordered his supporters to move en mass to the opposition party, but being a sitting senator on the platform of our party, APC, he couldn’t openly canvass for the opposition. He however engaged in anti-party activities behind closed doors.

“Today if not for the fact that the governor was magnanimous in victory, the speed at which the strength of the party is being built wouldn’t have been possible as many of the party stalwarts who had hitherto defected to other parties had returned to our party. Chief
Olusola Oke disclosed at the unification rally held by our party that if not for the magnanimity of the governor, his return to APC wouldn’t have been possible.

“That Senator Borofice is just reacting to the unification rally after several weeks smacks suspicion. It is no longer a secret that Senator Borofice is not only currently sponsoring meetings against our party but already on his way out of the party because he knows he has slim chances of winning the next primaries to return to the Senate the
third time due to his depleting popularity among the people of
the Northern Senatorial District.
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