You Chose To Advertise Ignorance, Sell Cheap Lies – Makinde’s Aide Replies Adelabu

The Chief Press Secretary to the Oyo State Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa today stated that the governor has been developing the state in line with the manifesto which he campaigned with in the 2019 election.

The governor’s spokesman, while reacting to an interview session by an Ibadan-based radio station with the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 election, Chief Bayo Adelabu, declared that no amount of lies, misinformation and deliberate plots to malign the government by members of the opposition would make the people of the state regret electing Makinde as their governor.

Adisa asserted that the Seyi Makinde administration has been developing the state in accordance with the carefully-worded manifesto tagged Oyo State Roadmap for Accelerated Development, 2019-2023.

“The Makinde administration is surefootedly taking the people of Oyo State from poverty to prosperity despite intense efforts by APC chieftains to distract it.”

Adisa added that the administration has also been transparent and open in the last one year and that this has endeared it to the people, who have come to realise that indeed, good governance is achievable in the state.

Adisa also questioned Adelabu’s pedigree, especially his criticisms of Makinde’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, declaring that measures taken so far by the Oyo State Task Force on COVID-19 have been adopted even by the Presidential Task Force.

Adisa opined that it is unpardonable for a man who contested the governorship seat of Oyo State not to recall the number of electoral wards in the state, saying: “It was undue arrogance for Mr. Adelabu to proclaim himself the best thing to happen to politics since Pa Obafemi Awolowo when in actual fact, he doesn’t know something as basic as the number of electoral wards in the state.

“That showcases the height of his ignorance about the workings of the state and further explains his lack of knowledge of the developmental strides of Governor Makinde’s administration in the last one year,” the statement further read.

Adisa berated the APC candidate for resorting to lies and castigating the people of Oyo State as ignorant when he said that “the most ignorant indigene of the state knows I am the best…,” saying “Adelabu should stop insulting the people of Oyo State by describing them as “ignorant.”

The statement read: “The people certainly made no mistakes by rejecting him in 2019 because he has shown that he has little or no esteem for the electorate. His rejection at the polls showed that the people of the Oyo State are right-thinking citizens and not ignorant lots as Adelabu will have the world believe.

“The poor and ignorant display of the governorship candidate of the APC, Mr. Adelabu on radio as part of the Oyo APC’s project to destroy Makinde’s government, has shown that the people of the state did not make any mistake in rejecting him at the polls.

“For the umpteenth time, we will like to state that no matter what Adelabu and his fellows in APC do to distract Makinde and turn the people of the state against his government, the governor will not be distracted and the people will not regret having him as their governor.

“Though no one would expect an honest assessment from someone like Adelabu, he has further demonstrated that he lacked the capacity for honesty with his submissions in the radio interview. He chose to advertise ignorance and try to sell cheap lies.