Emmanuel Thomas l Saturday, September 30, 2018
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – Ahead of the All Progressive Congress(APC), primaries currently ongoing, governorship candidate of the party, Mr. Jide Sanwo-Olu has described the Lagos Solidarity Forum(LSF) as purveyor of fake news.
The group had in a statement by its convener, Oladele Martins alleged that Sanwo-Olu who is seen as the party’s favourite in the primaries in a text message condemned the APC for stealing the mandate won by candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke.
“Sanwoolu is unhappy with the phyrric victory that gave Isiaka Oyetola the winning edge on Thursday over the PDP dancing candidate, Demola Adeleke. In a message Sanwoolu personally shared on a whatsapp group with members of his inner campaign caucus (Sanwo-Olu 4 Gov. Lagos), the APC gubernatorial aspirant unequivocally said his party won the Osun guber election in a crooked and unenviable manner”.
“In the message sent at exactly 6.42pm on Thursday with his airtel number, Sanwoolu said: “as much (as) I want our great party APC to win in Osun, am not happy with the way adopted to win. It shows we have no principle and no different from PDP…” Perhaps sincere but certainly naive and unguarded, Sanwoolu’s verdict on his own party has sent jitters round the APC hierarchy especially his sponsors who think not only could this leaked message be picked up by the opposition PDP in Osun but has also exposed Sanwoolu badly as a careless, perhaps reckless and disloyal party member who is immature and ill-prepared for the big assignment he is being hurriedly packaged for”, the LSF had alleged.
But in reply, Sanwo-Olu said the LSF should win the award of the biggest fake news of the year. “It’s another pack of conjured lies from the pit of hell from the stable of a very desperate people. It is fit only for the trash can.
“Like millions of other loyal APC members, I kept vigil twice in a week over the Osun polls, and as I have always said, I am a party man to the core. Isn’t it laughable that I was alleged to have said such things without a shred of evidence aside their dreamt-up fiction?
“I urge all our loyal APC supporters to ignore such baseless accusations from faceless and desperate shadowy groups. We are aware that more of such asinine rants will come from desperate groups, but we are undeterred, focused on our goal. ÌGBÉGA ÈKÓ TI DI ÀJÙMỌ̀ṢE”, he said.
