The Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organisation Foot Soldiers Independent Council has described a statement credited to the governorship candidate of People’s Democratic Party in Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa is incompetent, as the output of an empty mind.
Ajayi reportedly called the governor “incompetent” on Wednesday while speaking with newsmen at the Nigerian Union of Journalists Press Centre, Akure, where he revisited the nullification of the 33 Local Council Development Areas by an Akure High Court.
But in a swift response, the Campaign Council through its State Director of Information, Kayode Fasua, stated that “Agboola Ajayi in saying that Governor Aiyedatiwa is incompetent, by not running around communities begging them not to go to court over the newly created LCDAs, presents Ajayi himself as an empty mind.”
According to the Council, Ajayi’s line of argument that Aiyedatiwa should have persuaded the litigants in the LCDAs’ suit not to seek redress in court presented him as too pedestrian to seek the office of governor.
“Otherwise, why should Mr. Ajayi keep harping on the need for Governor Aiyedatiwa to have prevented aggrieved communities from going to court when an envisioned court verdict would never stop the state government from creating new LCDAs?
“What the court said in its judgement, in clear terms, is that the local councils were approved in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, and not within Ondo State territory, as required by law.
“Therefore, the state government can from there review the process, and come up with a decision that will appease all interests regarding the creation of new LCDAs.
“As such, Ajayi and his team are thus advised to desist from flocking media houses to make emotional outbursts on topics about which they lack adequate knowledge,” the LACO-FSIC appealed.
Besides, the Campaign Council expressed dismay at what it described as “the culture of brigandage which the PDP is bringing to the emerging governorship campaigns, especially in Akure, the state capital, where some leaders of the party have been breeding political thugs, harassing peace-loving APC supporters.”
“They are herein reminded of the sad event of 1983, when senses took flight for evil to prevail, and many years after, Ondo State and indeed the entire country have been struggling to get out of the trauma caused by that political crisis.
“So, the Ondo State PDP should be guided, as there is a government in power, to maintain law and order, and will never allow miscreants to take over the state.
“Government will act within its powers to deal with such ugly situations as nobody will be allowed to put the state on fire.
“Again, the PDP candidate should mind his statements; being the candidate of a party does not give you the licence to keep insulting the executive governor of a state.
“Let Ajayi be reminded that nobody is above the law,” the Campaign Council warned.