2023 Presidential Election: Gani Adams Rattles Tinubu On Ambition, Says Stop Pretending

By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA

The hide and seek game syndrome adopted by the National Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his ambition to contest the 2023 presidential election has received a big knock by Odua Peoples Congress (OPC).

The APC national leader over the years has been nursing the ambition of becoming the number one citizen in Nigeria with lots of antics, while he resorted to using several proxies to attack those who kicked against his move.

With this development, the Chieftain, Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) in Lagos State, Prince Adedayo Adesoye has challenged Asiwaju Tinubu to confirm or deny his presidential interest in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, and stop hiding behind scene.

Prince Adesoye who is the OPC Secretary at Somolu local government area, Lagos State in a statement made available to newsmen over the weekend called on Tinubu to stop hiding behind a finger, pointing out that the attack on the Aare Ona Kakanfo, Iba Gani Adams by Tinubu’s proxies was diversionary.

The OPC scribe described the media attack on Gani Adams as a ploy by the APC national leader to distract the public from the salient issues raised in the said interview.

Prince Adesoye cleared that the statement made by President of Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) New Era, Rasak Arogundade, was baseless, saying that those behind the media attacks on Adams are Tinubu’s proxies and they have no sense of history.

He said: “Tinubu should speak up on the issue raised in the interview. I think he should make his position known to the public, rather than sending his proxies to attack Aare Gani Adams, and also using it as a ploy to distract the people from the pertinent issues.

“Yorubas are waiting, Nigerians are waiting. We are seriously waiting to hear from him. He is at liberty to confirm or deny what Aare Gani Adams said about his disinterest in restructuring, and the Oodua Republic, as well as his purported ambition for presidency.

“But those trying to defend him are group of political jobbers that are making unsavoury remarks on the issues. The first was Wasiu Agarawu,and followed by Joe Igbokwu, Adeyinka Grandson and now it is the big fool, Rasak Arogundade, a turncoat, that is notorious for his uncouth rantings.

“I want to say this with all honesty that they are only dissipating their energies and wasting their time on frivolities. All attempts to soil the name of our leader and discredit the office of the Aare Ona kakanfo of Yorubaland will fail.

“We have decided not to respond to the attacks from these political opportunists and prostitutes, but with their continued efforts to tell lies and twist history, there is urgent need for us to set the records straight, and tell the public that all the allegations against our leader were false and spurious, and that they were attempts to soil his name and the sacred institution which is the office of the Aare Ona kakanfo of Yorubaland.

“Whoever that destroys someone’s character with a lie, will surely be destroyed with the truth. New Era was part of Tinubu’s agenda to break the OPC into factions. He succeeded by using those renegades as pawns for his political interests.”

Furthermore, he averred: “But sadly, it was not only the OPC that suffered this breakup, all the socio cultural groups in Yorubaland, including Afenifere, YCE, PRONACO and several others suffered the same fate.

“Between 1999 and 2007 that Tinubu was in charge of Lagos State, the state lost the respect of being the centre for excellence. Progressive programmes like free education, free health facilities and other social infrastructure created by the government of Alhaji Lateef Jakande in the 80s went down the drain. And Tinubu’s maxim, :”jeun soke” became the popular saying in our social and political milieu.

“So when Arogundade speaks, we surely know where the ranting is coming from. We know he is a political jobber with no sense of history and