Stop deceiving followers and honourably submit to security agencies. Ogun APC responses Adebutu

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate for governor on March 18th, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, was accused of electoral fraud, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) chapter for Ogun State stated on Friday that the most honourable thing for him to do was to present himself to security agencies.

The party also cautioned Adebutu to refrain from giving his supporters false optimism, reiterating their commitment to seeing his alleged atrocities from the previous election through to a just end in order to prevent others.

Ogun APC was responding to a statement in the media attributed to Adebutu, in which he brought up difficulties with the most recent gubernatorial election in the state, citing the involvement of a former governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel, among others.

The party claimed that the statement released by Adebutu was laced with intent to conceal some atrocities and change the true story in a statement signed by the assistant publicity secretary of the party in the State, Olusola Ogunsanya Blessed, and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, the State capital.

According to the party’s interpretation of Adebutu’s remarks, the PDP chairman and Daniel must have been humiliated as a result of the exposure of their alleged antics and plot during the previous general election.

The statement said, in part: “While Adebutu failed miserably to defend the fact that Gbenga Daniel worked for him and his party, the PDP, and betrayed the party that gave him a ticket and even sponsored him to become a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he tried to be clever by half by denying the allegation of bribery levelled against the former Ogun Governor with excessive arrogance.

The bribery, criminal conspiracy, and money laundering suspect who is currently hiding out in a foreign country resorted to defending the inadmissible in order to further expose the astounding level of moral decadence and perfidy that defines Adebutu and Daniel’s relationship. “For every discerning political watcher, it is crystal clear that Adebutu and Daniel were seriously embarrassed by the exposition of their atrocities in the public glare,”It is clear from Adebutu’s pattern of defence that he is a shallow man despite his age because he called Daniel “a very rich man in his own right.” Sadly, his line of thinking defies critical thinking and is a reflection of his pretentious and false demeanour.

It is even more impolite for the PDP candidate for governor to ignorantly refer to his father and Gbenga Daniel as supporters of Governor Dapo Abiodun, cleverly elevating pub chitchat and foolish innuendos as means of interacting with the public.

“On the subject of performance and the reelection of Governor Dapo Abiodun, it is surprising that a man like Oladipupo Adebutu, who is well-known for being utterly slothful and fatally afflicted with mental laziness, could accuse any government of non-performance and corruption, when he lacks the intellectual fortitude to conduct a thorough evaluation of government policies and activities,” the author writes.

In addition, the statement accused Adebutu of dishonestly undermining the political process by allegedly participating in money laundering and electoral fraud.

Additionally, it stated that Governor Dapo Abiodun had the support of the populace and had since settled into office, encouraging Adebutu to muster the fortitude to return home to face justice.

The question of Governor Dapo Abiodun’s acceptance and popularity is the most important one that Adebutu brings up in his thesis. Why did Adebutu and his allies resort to widespread election cheating by working with Zenith Bank to issue 200,000 ATM verve credit cards with preloaded N10,000 balances if, as he claimed, Governor Dapo Abiodun was not popular and could not have won the March 18th election?