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By Laide Raheem, Abeokuta
Youths in Ogun West Senatorial District, under the aegis of Yewa Youth Pacesetters (YYP), have flayed the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 18 gubernatorial poll, Oladipupo Adebutu, for labelling Governor Dapo Abiodun as “an ingrate looking for someone to blame for his abysmal performance.”
Adebutu, in a statement he personally signed on Friday, called Governor Abiodun an ingrate, saying that his billionaire father, Sir Kessington Adebutu bankrolled the political campaigns and associated activities of the governor.
The former House of Representatives member also said his family never gave money to Senator Gbenga Daniel to scuttle the re-election bid of Governor Abiodun in the 2023 poll.
Reacting to Adebutu’s position, the YYP, in a statement by its president, Dapo Fashola, yesterday, lampooned Adebutu for referring to the state governor as an ingrate and his weak attempt to defend the anti-party activities of Daniel.
Fashola pointed out that there were hard facts that the Adebutu family doled out a huge amount of money to lure the electorate during the election, which eventually went in favour of the incumbent governor.
The group added that rather than Adebutu and his party to busy themselves with how to defend vote buying allegations at the election petition tribunal, he engaged in name-calling and failed defence of anti-party activities of an agent provocateur within the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress.
While faulting Adebutu’s position on the alleged “abysmal performance” of Governor Abiodun, Fashola said that the PDP governorship candidate is not in tune with reality in the state.
He added that Adebutu had not come to terms with how Governor Abiodun delivered socio-economic development projects across the state in just four years.
YYP said that despite the paucity of funds, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, Abiodun was able to raise the bar in the delivery of good governance in the state and ensured equitable distribution of projects across the three senatorial districts in the state.
The group, however, asked Adebutu to return home and respond to the allegations of vote buying in the last election, instead of throwing expletives at a governor who was returned for another term of four years by the people of the state.
Fashola urged the people of the state to disregard Adebutu’s outburst, which he described as a case of “gasping for breath by a drowning man.”
