A rumour that President-elect Bola Tinubu is opposed to Prince Dapo Abiodun’s reelection as governor of Ogun state has been refuted by Senator Solomon Adeola, the head of the Senate Committee on Finance.
Contrary to the assertion, Tinubu is wholly behind Prince Abiodun and all of the All Progressives Congress, APC, contestants in the 18 March governorship and House of Assembly elections, according to Adeola, who is also the senator-elect for Ogun West Senatorial District.
After collecting his Certificate of Return as a member of the incoming 10th Senate of the National Assembly in Abuja, Adeola spoke at a stakeholders’ engagement event for Governor Abiodun in the Ogun West senatorial district held at Ijamido Hall, Ota. He declared that Prince Abiodun and all other candidates in the House of Assembly election must be re-elected before his win and that of the President-Elect will be complete.
Claims that Tinubu is opposed to Prince Abiodun’s reelection in favour of a candidate from another party in Ogun West, he said, are the work of desperate politicians who already knew they would lose the governorship and house of assembly elections by a landslide.
The senator went on to caution the state’s citizens against engaging in a political gamble based on self-interest and vanity for a fringe political group that currently lacks a president, governor, senator, or member of the House of Representatives.
The senator claimed that with the distribution of 27 transformers to communities in Ogun West and other initiatives, he has begun carrying out the campaign pledges he made.
The best thing for the overall growth of Ogun State, he continued, is to vote APC in the upcoming governorship and House of Assembly elections, just as done in the presidential and National Assembly elections.