Ogun 2019 : NASS Member dares Adeola over public debate

Following his recent call for a public debate on who is most qualified among all governorship aspirants from Ogun West senatorial district of the state, a member of House of Representatives from Ipokia and Yewa South constituency, Abdulkabir Akinlade has picked up the challenge for public debate thrown by a Senator representing Lagos West senatorial district Senator Olamilekan Adeola
Adeola popularly called Yayi had last week challenged other aspirants to a public debate ahead of the election on their plans for the state as governor , following his purported endorsement by a group in Ogun West Senatorial zone.

In a statement by Akinlade’s media aide, Olalekan Soyemi, he dared Adeola to choose his preferred place and venue of the discussion adding that he was willing to meet the Lagos Senator anywhere in as much as he could provide evidence of similar media debates he participated in as an aspirant in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 in Lagos which he presently represents.

Akinlade who represents Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency in the lower chamber stated that Yayi’s activities in Ogun state so far were mere noise without substance .
” I’m confident that any of the other aspirants who had been part of the successfully executed transformational policy of the Sen. Amosun’s administration will make a total mess of Yayi at any debate “, Akinlade stated.

He said: ” We are not given to issuing empty boasts in Ogun State which is why we refuse to allow our state turn into another Osun state by those whose sole interest is pecuniary”,he added.

Akinlade futher stated that “it insults our collective intelligence for Yayi to claim that he did not bribe members of Ogun West Consultative Forum because even a child in Yewa knows that another name for Ogun West Consultative Forum is Yewa City Club ” of which Adeola is a member and financier.

He also stated that the Senator is believed to have funded multiple trips of some members of the group to the US, UK and Canada where members have been lodged in expensive hotels and driven in luxurious cars .
Members of the club are also beneficiaries of juicy contracts particularly in Lagos which have been turned cash cow of the Yayi project. What then is the Senator’s definition of bribe or inducement?

Akinlade however said that although money would play its part, it wluld not be the determinant factor in who became the next governor of Ogun State come 2019.
Akinlade pointed out that while he was prepared to take Adeola on, it was advisable for the Senator to first forward to the public domain evidence of being an Ogun state voter and registered member of the party in the state.

“Available public record indicates that Senator Adeola voted in Alimoso during the last July local government election in Lagos state ” Akinlade said.