Oyo LGs, missing cars: Ajimobi should stop defending illegality

…His utterances a celebration of failure

The Oyo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has requested the instant previous Governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi to stop taking part in to the gallery along with his defence of parts in his authorities who took away automobiles and different objects belonging to the state.

The social gathering in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Engineer Akeem Olatunji, stated that it was shameful to see Ajimobi describe the monumental theft of presidency property by some individuals as a “mundane issue.”

The statement learn: “We learn with severe consternation, comments credited to the previous Governor of Oyo state, Senator Ajimobi, particularly in respect of the dissolved native governments and the missing automobiles belonging to the state authorities.

“While we’re very a lot conscious that the state authorities is coping with the dual points with all of the seriousness, we’re, nonetheless, appalled by the statement credited to the previous Governor, which quantities to a father trying to pamper a thieving baby.

“We know that it isn’t within the character of statesmen to pander in the direction of the axis of evil and pamper wrongdoing by whoever and that’s the reason we’re saddened at this try by Ajimobi to a person of give justification to allegation of theft.

“We consider that having served the 2 constitutionally assured phrases of workplace as Governor of Oyo state, Senator Ajimobi should stay grateful to the people of Oyo state.

There can’t be any ambiguity within the statement credited to the brand new Government on the difficulty of automobiles taken away by operatives of the final administration.

Some officers of the federal government led by Ajimobi refused to return automobiles and different objects belonging to the state after their tour of responsibility. That can’t be a matter to be celebrated or described as “mundane” by anybody.

“Should we classify theft as mundane as a result of it was perpetrated by some political “demi god’s” who occurred to serve a earlier authorities?

“What is predicted of Ajimobi is to prevail on his loyalists to return any property belonging to the state they may have illegally saved apart.

Besides his defence of the missing autos, Senator Ajimobi has additionally been gallivanting spherical the town of Ibadan in latest occasions as if in some victory laps. He has made statements to the impact that he turned across the state and has additionally been providing phrases of recommendation to Governor Seyi Makinde. We congratulate him for the alleged feat.

“We, nonetheless, make daring to state that the stated achievements he claimed to have recorded fall method beneath the pacesetter standing of Oyo state. At finest, Ajimobi’s laps quantity to a celebration of failure; what with the uncompleted initiatives throughout.

“With the funds his authorities claimed to have dedicated to capital initiatives, we should not be speaking of poorly executed contracts and deserted roads in all places even after a authorities has spent eight years in workplace.

Let us, nonetheless, reassure the people of Oyo state that Governor Seyi Makinde will return the misplaced glory of this state and take that state to a better realm of growth anybody can think about.

“On the dissolved native governments, we’re satisfied that Ajimobi is merely taking part in to the gallery of partisan politics right here.

“We don’t want to say a lot on this as a result of the matter is earlier than the court of legislation. We will, nonetheless, place on document that each one efforts aimed toward pulling the administration of Governor Makinde down, even earlier than it took off are already chucking up the sponge.

“Our people should not unaware of the collection of landmines positioned on the trail of the brand new authorities by the administration of Ajimobi. We are all witnesses to the collection of last-minute spending and the refusal to cooperate with the transition committee. Those should not the antics of statesmen.

“We may also state it loud and clear that the PDP will not be unsure that the brand new driver in Oyo state is competent and able to take away all cobwebs and cogs within the wheels of progress. We will all be witnesses to the success story.