Traps set by APC for Oyo people will fail, group tells Folarin

An Oyo State-based socio-political group, Oyo Kajola Group (OKG), has lashed out at the Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Senator Teslim Folarin, for claiming that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had set two traps for the government of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, assuring that to him it cannot escape.

The group in a statement by its Media Coordinator, Mr. Adebayo Ayandele, said the statement credited to Folarin in an address to his party loyalists, had exposed the evil intention of the APC, its members and that of the Senator in question.

According Ayandele, “By that statement, we are left in no doubt that the APC has the sinister motive of seizing power at all cost through the Court, an intention which has no basis and will fail woefully.”

The group maintained that whatever trap has been set to derail good governance, which the Makinde administration has been delivering in the state, would hit the rocks because the governor was massively elected by the people of Oyo State and has continued to endear himself to them through policies and programmes that are already yielding fruits.

Ayandele noted that Folarin’s assertion, contained in a video clip, was a timely revelation that forces of darkness in the APC were hell bent on destabilising the government of Makinde, warning that any plan to entrap the people of Oyo State with fraudulent Court judgment and foist on the people an already rejected candidate would contend with stiff opposition and the wrath of the people.

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He further warned the APC leaders in the state, especially Folarin, to perish the thoughts of stealing the popular mandate given to Makinde, because according to him, it will remain a pipedream that can never materialise.

“Before such APC leaders go about deceiving innocent persons, they, including Folarin would need to explain their roles in the failed Moniya-Ijaiye-Iseyin road contract on which N2billion of Oyo State tax payers’ money was wasted without a tangible result,” he said.

The activist maintained that Folarin’s statement was unguarded and irresponsible, adding that the Senator’s insistence that “they would not allow another party except the APC to govern Oyo State,” came a few weeks after the trio of former Governors Adebayo Alao-Akala, Abiola Ajimobi and Folarin had a meeting in Abuja.

“We in the Oyo Kajola Group and by extension the people of Oyo State were not surprised by Senator Folarin’s statement. Indeed, no resident of Oyo State expects decorum or finesse from Folarin, because of his known political history. What no one expected was that he would, like a palm wine drinker, openly seek to truncate the wishes generally expressed by the people of Oyo State during the March 9, election.

“We believe that Folarin’s unguarded moment was God’s way of exposing APC’s plan to derail the government of Oyo State and deny the people of the good governance they are already enjoying under Governor Makinde.”

The group further queried the real reason behind Folarin’s outburst, wondering if he was reacting to Makinde’s actions in exposing the rot left behind by his cousin, Senator Ajimobi, or protecting his own interest, saying, “But before Folarin and his evil traps setters in the APC continue in their doomed voyage, which will ultimately consume them and be the beginning of the end for them politically, we would like the Senator to explain what he knows about the Moniya-Ijaiye-Iseyin road contract awarded to Oladiran Trades and paid N2 billion mobilisation funds.

“It would interest the public to know that Governor Seyi Makinde had, after revoking the contract from the incompetent contractor supported by the APC leaders, seized the contractor’s Advance Payment Guarantee (APG) and recovered N1billion to the coffers of the state.

“We are certain that the anger of the clique of trap-setters is mainly against the insistence of Governor Makinde that their failed company must refund the people’s money illegally appropriated.

“To come clean, the trap-setting senator should tell Oyo State people what transpired on the project.”