Ondo 2020: Ex-Dep Gov Mocks Akeredolu, Says APC Will Win Without Him

The erstwhile deputy governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi has rebuffed claims by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu that the All Progressives Congress, APC would lose the state if the ticket is not given to him.

Olanusi in an interview affirmed that more than 80% of the membership of the party was against the second term aspiration of Akeredolu. The party chief who is a leader of the Unity Forum in the state also accused Governor Akeredolu of snubbing agreements reached with national party chieftains including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande and Aremo Olusegun Osoba.

Olanusi who spoke to Daily Independent when asked of the governor’s comment that the party would lose the election without him as candidate, said:

“This is laughable. It is nothing better than a mere beer parlour joke. It is ordinary outburst and empty-threat. We are on ground here and the reality is that close to 80% of party members are disenchanted with Governor Akeredolu and his government.

“The Unity Forum meets regularly in my house and I can tell you authoritatively that that is where the strength of the party lies in Ondo State as at present. Maybe I should invite you for our next meeting to see for yourself.

“I said it in a recent interview that if he leaves APC we will not miss him at all. The APC of today in Ondo State is in the hands of the leaders and members not the pocket of the governor, he leads an imaginary army.

“About leaving the party, he is free to do that after all our constitution allows for freedom of association. But a Yoruba adage says, ‘ won o so wipe ki omode ma d’ete to ba ti le ma da gbe inu igbo’ that is any child that develops leprosy should be ready to be quarantined to the leprosorium. I describe the statement as an overestimation of self and very illusory.”

Noting how the governor spurned an agreement to unify the party, he said:

“Well, we need to thank Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande and Aremo Olusegun Osoba who took the initiative in July 2019 and attempted to broker peace and reconcile the factions but unfortunately none of the recommendations at the meeting has been attended to by the governor.

“He failed to call meetings for committees to be constituted to carry out assignments and steps that may bring lasting solutions.”

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