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THE deputy governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Taofeek Arapaja, has advised Senator Bola Tinubu and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to stop using Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s name to deceive the people of Oyo State in their desperate bid to subvert the popular will of voters in the April 2011 elections.

Alhaji Arapaja said the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo as premier of Western Region ran a government that all Yoruba sons and daughters are proud of till today, adding that the ACN having failed to replicate Awolowo’s legacy should stop hiding under the canopy of the great man they had abandoned by living ostentatious lifestyles while Pa Awo lived a simple life.

According to a press statement signed by the deputy governor’s Special Adviser on Media, Mr Kola Adegoke, apparently in reaction to the ACN leaders’ statement during its rally in Ibadan on Saturday, the deputy governor said the PDP government of Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala is a continuation of Awolowo’s ideas of good governance, slamming Tinubu and the ACN for denying Alao-Akala’s good works which place him in good stead to win the 2011 governorship election in Oyo State.

Arapaja said there are no true Awoists in Tinubu’s camp.

“The true Awoists that I know are Baba Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, among others. Are they with Tinubu?

“We know how many times Mama HID Awolowo had invited Tinubu and his cohorts to Yoruba Unity Forum at Ikenne, which they turned down without any tenable excuse, are they true Awoists like that?”

Alhaji Arapaja further stated that Senator Tinubu displayed total ignorance of the situation in Oyo State by calling on the people of Oke-Ogun, Ibarapa, Ogbomoso and Oyo to vote for the ACN despite the fact that the ACN leader in the state, Alhaji Lam Adesina as governor of the state, abandoned the people of the region to continue to suffer the neglect of the past.

The deputy governor, however, said the Alao-Akala government in Oyo State has rehabilitated several kilometres of roads linking various parts of the state including the one from Iseyin through Ado-Awaye (the home of Lam Adesina’s deputy, Iyiola Oladokun), which was impassable when Alao-Akala assumed office in 2007.

Alhaji Arapaja asked if it is morally right for Senator Tinubu and his associates to ride on roads rehabilitated by Governor Alao-Akala to get to Mapo which he completely renovated only for them to condemn the same Alao-Akala.

Describing Alao-Akala as a purposeful leader who has set a standard for governance in Oyo State, Alhaji Arapaja said the ACN should not mistake the planting of flowers around Lagos State for real dividends of democracy.

Most definitely, they should stop deceiving people

Abraham Lincoln said:

"You can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all the people some of the time. But you can't fool all the people all the time."

excanny:

Most definitely, they should stop deceiving people

A ritualist like Arapaja is not the type to speak on any AWOLOWO issue. You need to go to your ibo land and tell ojukwu to stop deceiving ibos with GEJ presidency. We YORUBAS will keep following TINUBU in as much as he still gives us Performing Governors like Oshiomole, Fashola, Fayemi and Aregbesola. We don't want Ritualists like OGD and Akala. We are content with ACN ibo man. Omo ajekuta ma mu omi sogba e.

Somebody pls tell me who Arapaja is,I know of one who use to be Adedibu's chief rogue.

seanet02:

A ritualist like Arapaja is not the type to speak on any AWOLOWO issue. You need to go to your ibo land and tell ojukwu to stop deceiving ibos with GEJ presidency. We YORUBAS will keep following TINUBU in as much as he still gives us Performing Governors like Oshiomole, Fashola, Fayemi and Aregbesola. We don't want Ritualists like OGD and Akala. We are content with ACN ibo man. Omo ajekuta ma mu omi sogba e.

Loser

excanny:

Loser

MUMU

Hmmm another one 4rm PDP 2wds ACN. Nice one!

Tinubu can never be like Awolowo