The Osi Basorun of Ibadan land in Oyo State, Prince (Dr) Azeez Popoola Adeduntan has informed of his intention of working assiduously for the emergence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as Governor Seyi Makinde (GSM) who contested for Oyo State second term governorship ticket on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections.
Dr Adeduntan during a media parley at an event in Abuja, said Tinubu as at the time of the election was the best candidate for any political party to present for such a sensitive election in the setting of how to move Nigeria forward from impending economic doom and political disasters.
The revered cardio vascular surgeon stated that apart from the fact that going by the rotational arrangement in the existing political parties, which stipulated that Southern part of the country is to produce the next President, the successes of President Tinubu in managing human and natural resources can not just be over emphasised.
He explained that President Tinubu has made landmark achievements even as a two term governor of Lagos State which path successive administrations in the state continue to toe.
His words, “I think my decision and that of thousands of my supporters to support President Tinubu has been justified going by what he has achieved in the last few days as President of this nation.
The international communities have also attested to this fact of transformation by President Tinubu”.
Dr Adeduntan said further that, his support for Governor Seyi Makinde to be re-elected was because of his performance during his first term and his support for Tinubu Presidency as a Yoruba man and meritoriously.
He stated that Governor Makinde had won the heart of most residents of the state even those from outside with his regular and prompt payment of salaries, pensions and gratuities, 13th month salary and massive infrastructural development going round the state.
“So going by this standard, it will be extremely difficult for any candidate to have emerged victorious aside from Makinde as he is people’s choice”.
The Ibadan born politician however, described the governorship primary and other primaries election of APC in Oyo state last year for which he was a material and living witness-as a fraud, a charade, embarrassing, and a mockery of the most treasured democratic governance by a very minority few that must not be allowed to stand to prevent this from happening in the future -for it is the silence of the voice of justice ,that has made it easy for evil to triumph in any society-euphemistically captured in the phrase -“if u see something, say something” now in wide usage all over the world.
Dr Adeduntan, added that the exercise was just a display of political shenanigan and fraud which later tore the party apart across the state.
He said, “It indeed gladdens my heart that I was part of a process that redirected the electoral map of our nation”.
It would be recalled that Tinubu polled 449,884 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 182,977 votes in Oyo State, prayed that Nigeria and Tinubu should succeed for the best interest of Nigeria as a nation. Adeduntan affirmed.
