Stop giving your people false hope, Cooperate with law enforcement – Ogun APC tells Adebutu

On Friday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State said that Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, the governorship candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 18th election, would do the most honourable thing by cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation of the allegations of electoral fraud made against him.

The party also warned Adebutu against giving his supporters any false optimism, saying that the allegations against him from the last election would be investigated thoroughly and brought to a just conclusion in the appropriate court.

Ogun APC’s response came after a media remark attributed to Adebutu brought up questions about the state’s most recent gubernatorial election, in which former governor Gbenga Daniel had a role.

The party issued a statement to the press in the state capital of Abeokuta, signed by the party’s assistant publicity secretary Olusola Ogunsanya Blessed, claiming that Adebutu’s statement was intended to cover up certain atrocities and change the real narrative.

According to the party’s interpretation of Adebutu’s statement, the PDP leader and Daniel must feel humiliated by the exposure of their alleged election-related antics and conspiracy.

The statement said, in part, that “while Adebutu, in his cognitively impoverished piece dripping with vile abuse, failed woefully to defend the fact that Gbenga Daniel, against good conscience, worked for him and his party, the PDP, and betrayed the party that gave him a ticket and even sponsored him to emerge as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the former Ogun governor “tried to be clever by half by denying the allegation of

Defending the indefensible and thereby further exposing the astounding degree of moral decadence and perfidy that defines their relationship, the bribery, criminal conspiracy, and money laundering suspect currently hibernating in a foreign country has, for every astute political observer, made it abundantly clear that Adebutu and Daniel were seriously embarrassed by the exposition of their atrocities in the public gaze.

Adebutu’s defending strategy, in which he called Daniel “a very rich man in his own right,” is indicative of how superficial he is, despite his advanced years. He comes seem as pretentious and untrustworthy, and his thinking reflects that.

Astutely elevating beer hall gossip and stupid insinuation as means of public engagement, the PDP guber candidate was even more juvenile when he mentioned his father and Gbenga Daniel as beneficiaries of Governor Dapo Abiodun.

To accuse any government of non-performance and corruption when one lacks the intellectual stamina to do a thorough assessment of government policies and activities comes as a surprise coming from someone like Oladipupo Adebutu, who is known to be irredeemably indolent and mortally afflicted with mental laziness.

The statement further boldly claimed that Adebutu had compromised the electoral process through his involvement in suspected electoral malpractices and money laundering.

Adebutu was urged to gather his fortitude and return home to face punishment, as Governor Dapo Abiodun had the support of the people and had settled into rule.

The matter of Governor Dapo Abiodun’s popularity and acceptability is the most pressing concern expressed by Adebutu in his essay. A key question for Adebutu to answer is why he and his cohorts resorted to open rigging by conspiring with Zenith Bank to issue 200,000 ATM verve credit cards, preloaded with N10,000 each, to bribe voters in the State if, as he claimed, Governor Dapo Abiodun was not popular and couldn’t have won the March 18th poll.

Rather than resorting to illegality and audaciously breaching the sanctity of the democratic process, as Adebutu and the PDP did, a popular candidate would have done what Governor Dapo Abiodun did and meticulously monitored his votes.

Last but not least, if Adebutu is who he says he is, he needs to muster the intestinal fortitude to return to Nigeria and turn himself in to the security forces there. Now is not the time for him to mislead his nave supporters.

People in Ogun State “are very optimistic that their stolen votes by Adebutu and the PDP through massive rigging will be retrieved by the Tribunal soon,” the message added.