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APC chieftain warns Gov Akeredolu to stop giving his aides orders to attack Tinubu

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A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Chief Olusola Oke, has warned Ondo State Governor, Olawarotimi Akeredolu, to stop ordering his aides to attack the National Leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

In a statement issued on Monday which was signed by his media aide, Rotimi Ogunleye, entitled, “MR GOVERNOR, CALL YOUR MEN TO ORDER”, Oke said the scenario that facilitated his movement from the APC to AD in 2016 was quite different from the action of Akeredolu in 2019.

Reacting to statements credited to the aides of the governor, Oke admonished Akeredolu to call his aides to order over the incessant attacks on the leaders of the party, especially Tinubu.

He, however, maintained that it was not too late for Akeredolu and his “boys” to apologize to the party and its leaders.

“The attempt to vent their anger on Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a respected leader of the APC, through indecorous interviews and press statements by the aides of governor Akeredolu, is unbecoming of a party man who has benefited from the government of the party that Asiwaju and other prominent leaders of APC labored so hard to put in place.

“Chief Oke is of the firm opinion that as APC members of the southwest extraction, party elders, especially the one that has made huge sacrifices capable of making the platform of APC to endure and the national chairman of our great party, deserve respect and honour at all times.

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“The fact of what led some “aggrieved” persons to AA is in the public glare. Its effect ravaged the party from the northern senatorial district to the southern senatorial district. No amount of flowery narratives can blur the image of its devastating effect from the memory of Senator Yele Omogunwa, Senator Ajayi Boroffice, Hon Mayowa Akinfolarin, Hon Bunmi Tunji Ojo, Hon Adeogun, all who were the APC candidates in the last National Assembly elections. Nothing kills a party more than the monster of anti-party.

“Chief Oke believes that we can rise above this level of blame trade by accepting the reality of our situation, offer a remorseful apology to the appropriate quarters just like the party and the government did before the State House of Assembly elections, and our party will be great again.

“Lastly, it is unacceptable that the aides of governor Akeredolu will continue to throw invectives at the leaders of APC in the state and the national level without any restraint. That it has attained a usual trend suggests that the governor approves of their invectives otherwise, the governor should call his aide to order,” the statement read in part,” he said.

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