The Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa campaign has fired back at the flagbearer of the New Nigerian People’s Party in the November 16 governorship election, Hon Gbenga Edema, and accused him of being envious of its principal.
Edema had earlier on Thursday told associates of ex-Governor Olusegun Mimiko who decamped to Aiyedatiwa’s APC of jumping into a sinking boat.
Aiyedatiwa is also seeking reelection at the coming poll.
The response was in a statement by Mr. Kayode Fasua, the State Information Director of the Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organisation Foot Soldiers Independent Council (LACO-FSIC).
Titled “LACO-FSIC’s Reaction to Latest Tantrums from NNPP’s Olugbenga Edema,”, the statement read:
“Olugbenga Edema of the NNPP is a mere attention seeker; one who is haunted by his poor political judgement of dumping the All Progressives Congress, simply because he lost out woefully in the last APC governorship primary election.
“The relevance he does not have now because of operating in a political desert, is what he wants to stylishly get by blackmailing the APC-led administration in the state.
“His hot envy about the mass exodus of PDP ‘pillars’ in Ondo State to APC, can only be compared with the frustration of someone who dumped a true friend and ran away with a crook, only to later find his old friend blossoming in company with great companions.
“Contrary to his doomdayer’s assertion, the ship of the APC in Ondo State is sailing smoothly in the breeze of cool weather, under the dynamic leadership of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
“A long list of the governor’s achievements in terms of infrastructure, human empowerment, public welfare, and so on, if unfurled, will make him swoon.
“Edema’s claim that Aiyedatiwa’s victory at the begone primary election was questionable reeks of a stone-age mind, when Aiyedatiwa’s candidature as presented to the INEC by the APC was never queried or turned down. Aiyedatiwa was given a clean bill of health.
“Edema is, therefore, advised to concentrate on his lonely voyage, rather than waste his energy on shouting wolf, where there is none.”
