Adelabu Advertising Ignorance – Makinde’s Aide

The Chief Press Secretary to the governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa said on Saturday that the governor has been developing the state in line with the manifesto which he campaigned with in the 2019 election cycle.

The governor’s spokesman, who was reacting to an interview granted an Ibadan-based radio station by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  in the 2019 election, Chief Bayo Adelabu, declared that no amount of lies, misinformation and deliberate plots to malign the government  by members of the opposition would make the people of the state regret electing Makinde as their governor.

According to him, the governor remained committed to delivering on the mandate given to him by residents of the state, noting that the administration has been developing the state in accordance with the carefully-worded manifesto tagged Oyo State Roadmap for Accelerated Development, 2019-2023.

“The Makinde administration is sure-footedly taking the people of Oyo State from poverty to prosperity despite intense efforts by APC chieftains to distract it,” the statement read.

The governor’s media aide added that the administration has also been transparent and open in the last one year and that this has continued to endeared it to the people, who have come to realise that indeed, good governance and probity were achievable in the state.

The statement also questioned Adelabu’s pedigree, especially his criticisms of Makinde’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, declaring that measures taken so far by the Oyo State Task Force on COVID-19 have been adopted even by the Presidential Task Force.

According to the statement, it is unpardonable that a man who contested the governorship seat of Oyo State cannot recall the number of electoral wards in the state, saying: “It was undue arrogance for Mr. Adelabu to proclaim himself the best thing to happen to politics since Pa Obafemi Awolowo when in actual fact, he doesn’t know something as basic as the number of electoral wards in the state.

“That showcases the height of his ignorance about the workings of the state and further explains his lack of knowledge of the developmental strides of Governor Makinde’s administration in the last one year,” the statement further read.

The statement berated the APC candidate for resorting to lies and castigating the people of Oyo State as ignorant when he said that “the most ignorant indigene of the state knows I am the best…,” saying “Adelabu should stop insulting the people of Oyo State by describing them as “ignorant.”

“Though no one would expect an honest assessment from someone like Adelabu, he has further demonstrated that he lacked the capacity for honesty with his submissions in the radio interview. He chose to advertise ignorance and try to sell cheap lies.

“The former CBN deputy governor lied through his nose on several policies of the Makinde administration, including the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the approaches to security, education and other reforms, justifying the intelligence report that the Oyo State APC has produced a document on misinformation and mendacity as the weapon to wrestle power in the state. Unfortunately for them, the people of Oyo State are wiser and can see through their lies.

“If anyone doubts the fact that Adelabu lied and is an irredeemably arrogant individual, the intervention of respected politician, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin on the programme, which put a lie to his false claims on the coalition of parties in the election, easily clears the doubts.”

Adelabu had claimed that Senator Lanlehin negotiated with him ahead of the 2019 election, which the politician immediately denied, reiterating that he had no regret working with others to elect Makinde as governor.

The statement further berated Adelabu for hurrying to advertise his ignorance and his obvious lack of information on governance and developments in Oyo State in the last one year, saying: “With that interview, Adelabu showed that he is not in touch with the reality in Oyo State.

“To use his own words, talk is cheap. So, reeling out falsehood on the number of isolation centres and treatment facilities put in place by the government to handle the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the efforts of the administration on prevention, sensitization and treatment of the disease amounted to cheap talk.

“He dabbled in everything, advertising his ignorance in even areas that one would have expected him to have at least a little knowledge. For instance, he claimed that the state spent N1 billion to fight the COVID-19 pandemic within two weeks without coming up with the accurate figure.

“Mr. Adelabu claimed that gangsters were nowhere in Oyo during Ajimobi’s era, but he forgot to tell the world that the same Ekugbemi and co were operating freely during the tenure of his godfather as governor. He also forgot to mention that Adeoyo Hospital, Ring Road was a haven for criminals during the eight years of Ajimobi, where nurses and doctors were usually invaded by robbers and rapists. All those are things of the past today.

“With the campaign of falsehood by Adelabu today, it is clear that he, like other leaders in the Oyo State APC, have no capacity for truthfulness.”

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