An Oyo State-based socio-political group, the Oyo Kajola Group (OKG),
at the weekend chided the governorship candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 9 election, Adebayo Adelabu
and his party for seeking to snatch the governorship seat through the
backdoor.
The group, in a statement by its Media Coordinator, Adebayo Ayandele,
said that the statements credited to the APC and its candidate were
targeted at provoking the good people of Oyo State.
“We cannot understand what Mr. Adelabu meant when he said he had a
date with history in a statement he made after the ruling of the Court
of Appeal on his election petition. We can also not understand the
enthusiasm of the APC on the same matter.
“Rather than creating false hopes and hiding under the banners of lies
and confusion to deceive their followers, we wish to urge the APC to
face the reality of it all and accept that the 2019 governorship
election in Oyo State has been won by Engr Oluseyi Makinde.
“Let us warn very clearly that the election of the Governor of Oyo
State was done within the purview of the law and not extra-legal
factors.
“We, therefore, reject in its entirety, any form of ambivalence or
ambiguity written into the judgement of the Court of Appeal on the Oyo
State election matter and stick to the truth of it all: that Engir
Seyi Makinde remains the man voted for by the people of Oyo state and
that his mandate will be in force till May 28, 2023.”
The group described the statement credited to Adelabu that some agents
of darkness perfected the plan to steal his mandate,” which led to his
“recourse to the judiciary to proof (sic) their wrongdoing,” as
hogwash, and an insult to the good people of Oyo State who massively
rejected him on March 9, 2019.
The statement also warned the APC not to keep the hopes of
manipulative tendencies too high as according to it, no one can
supplant Makinde through the back door.
The group urged Makinde to continue the good works he has started in
Oyo State, which it said have made him a cynosure of all eyes and a
worthy example for other governors.
It noted that “the APC’s plot to take a mandate given to Governor
Makinde by Oyo State people through evil machinations will not
succeed.”
