From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
The Managing Director/CEO of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, has refuted claims that he attacked President Bola Tinubu over the recent visit of the ace singer, David Adeleke (Davido), and his uncle, Senator Ademola Adeleke, to the Lagos residence of the President.
The coordinator of Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (AMBO) Media Front, Adebayo Adedeji, in a statement on Thursday, June 5, 2025, explained that the claim that Oyebamiji and his supporters attacked Tinubu was false and mischievous.
He said: “We write that the claim is false, cruel, and mischievous, with intendment to demonise our Principal, Oyebamiji, as a desperate politician with lack of spirit of sportsmanship and respect for constituted authority.
“The AMBO supporters had/have no reason to attack President Tinubu over a harmless visit to his residence, and we affirm that such an insanely sponsored accusation, by a known politician whose compatriots rejected during the 2022 and 2023 polls, did an injustice to the Omoluabi values we profess and espouse in our team.
“As an integral part of the AMBO Project in Osun, the Media directorate monitors all activities and engagements on social and digital space to ensure all our political communications and media messaging align with our Rule of Engagement, focusing on promotion of the quality of Asiwaju Bola Oyebamiji and the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu, particularly in the Marine and Blue Economy, where our Apex Leader in the state, HE Adegboyega Oyetola, is making great inroads and profound impacts. And since yesterday, when the media reported the said visit to President Tinubu, no member of our team, whether in the media or other directorates, has used his/her space to promote hate speech against our national leader or any leader of the party whatsoever.
“Even when intelligence revealed the identity of the jealous politician behind the destructive write-up—when his wife and other associates joined the media bullies to escalate the falsehood and pejoratively described AMBO’s governorship aspiration as ‘Dead on Arrival,’ we took the slur in equanimity, hoping in and trusting the leadership and judgement of the President to be fair to all the party faithful who have kept vigil over the last two years and are eager to replicate the good governance being dispensed at the national level in Osun State come 2026.
“We insist that the AMBO Project has been issue-based and is intentional about canvassing quality support within and outside the party that would lead our party to success, first in 2026 in the gubernatorial contest and, second, in the 2027 presidential election.
“Oyebamiji is a great admirer of Mr President and has consistently used his clout as a celebrated Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and Chartered Institute of Economists to advance the noble contribution of President Tinubu’s economic policy since inauguration in May 2023.
“Anywhere Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (AMBO) goes, he goes with the message of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President—a message all lovers of AMBO Project have come to adopt and often use in their individual digital platforms to market the APC administration in Nigeria,” he said.