Reps aspirant threatens legal action over alleged link with factional APC leadership in Lagos

A House of Representatives aspirant for Ikeja Federal Constituency of Lagos State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mrs Toke Benson-Awoyinka has threatened to take legal action against a national newspaper, not The Daily Times, for linking her with the factional leadership of the party in the state.

Mrs Benson-Awoyinka, popularly called Toke Benson, who is the Assistant Legal Adviser of the Lagos State chapter of the APC, is miffed that a national newspaper alleged that she held a meeting with the Mr. Fuoad Oki led factional leadership of the party,

where the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola among others was in attendance a few days ago at a hotel in Abuja, a meeting she said she was not aware of and did not attend.

Wondering where the newspaper got its information, Toke Benson in a chat with newsmen in Lagos, said she did not attend any such meeting either in Abuja, Lagos or anywhere, wondering where the said newspaper got its ill intended information from, advising them to retract the said story or be prepared to face legal action, as she is still in discussions with her lawyers over the next line of action.

Describing the story as the handiwork of her political opponents who are troubled by her rising political profile, the aspirant advised those behind the story to work harder to salvage their dwindling political fortunes instead of looking for cheap blackmail to pull her down and try to be a clog in the wheel of her moving political train, telling them if that is the intension that they have failed.

She said linking her with the factional APC leadership in the state and some politicians in the state people refer to as Abuja politicians, was an attempt to question her loyalty to the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, adding that it has failed as she is not in any league with any faction of the party,

but rather as the Assistant Legal Adviser of the party in the state, a position she has held in the last five years, her loyalty remains and will continue to remain with the recognised structure of the party and the National Leader.

“My activities in the party is open and one of those they alleged I am now in league with only recently threatened to take me to court because of my activities and no one can question my loyalty to the party and to our national leader, either before,

now or in the future, I am a committed party member and will not play double face politics as the manner of some of them are,” she said.