Osun APC Hits Back At Accord Lawmaker Over Guber Candidate ‘Weakling’ Comment
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has hit back at the lawmaker representing Ede-North/Ede-South, Egbedore, Ejigbo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Bamidele Salam, over his claim that its gubernatorial candidate, Mr Bola Oyebamiji, is a ‘weakling’ and will not win his local government.
OSUN DEFENDER reports that Salam stated this while he featured on Channels Television Station on Tuesday.
The lawmaker during the programme, said Governor Ademola Adeleke will has earned the trust of Osun people and will win his re-election.
But the APC, in a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, on Thursday, said it was uncharitable of Salam to have described Oyebamiji as ‘a weakling’ who will not be able to win his federal constituency during the forthcoming election.
“We know where Salam is coming from and we are not surprised that he could make such an unsubstantiated and utterly reckless statement about our governorship candidate who has distinguished himself as a huge and exemplary success in both his private and public life as against his preferred governorship candidate who is a perpetual satellite human being in his over six decades in his journey of life,” Olabisi stated.
The statement added that the federal lawmaker during the interview, showed that he was pained that the APC rejected the overtures of Governor Ademola Adeleke to defect into the party.
“We are stating here unequivocally that no amount of outbursts from Salam and his political co-travellers would prevent the imminent loss of his political idol in the forthcoming governorship election as the exhibited best of the incumbent governor in his close to four years in the corridor of power in the state has proven that he lacks what it takes to take the state to the Eldorado,” Olabisi noted.
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