A gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Niyi Akintola has replied the Chairman of the party’s congress committee in Oyo state, Mr. Gambo Lawan.
Akintola in a statement on Saturday said that Gambo Lawan’s talk is a reflection of how Nigeria has sunk with its morality.
Recall that Gambo Lawan has earlier described Chief Niyi Akintola as a paperweight politician who only surfaces during electioneering period.
But Akintola in his response said Lawan and “his paymasters” should understand that they were monitoring all their moves.
The statement reads in full: “That Gambo LAWAN is speaking at all is a reflection of how low our country has sunk with it’s morality. My people say if you’re called a thief and you say it’s unproven, what about the strange kid goat you’re harbouring?
“If indeed the reason for GAMBO’S presence in Oyo State is the harmonization meeting and not to fulfill his unfinished assignment with his “beloved interloping faction” of our Progressive party, he would have ventured out to see what was going on at the State party house where the majority of the party leadership held the harmonization Meeting.
At the so called Abuja Meeting where the National Secretary represented the Chairman. 11 members were expected to be at the harmonization meeting and they are Chief Akin Oke, Former governor Akala, the past 2 Progressive deputy governors,and the seven zonal leaders. That was the agreement in Abuja. All these people were locked out of Akala’s house earlier in the week when they visited to sort out modalities for the harmonization. Obviously this did not tally with the Akala group’s preconceived notion of including the uninvited.
“This is a party matter. If Gambo Lawan has any business with Chief Akala let them sort it out, outside of official business of Oyo APC.
Chief Akala snubbed the team assembled openly at the Abuja meeting and therefore constituted his own team as against the party’s request.
If anybody is in doubt as to the veracity of my discussion with the leaders in Abuja yesterday, they can directly cross-check. LAWAN and his paymasters should understand that we’re not “Mugus” in Oyo State and we’re monitoring all their subterranean moves.”
