Governor’s Aide Attacks Ondo Senator, Former Minister Over Akeredolu’s Stance On NASS Zoning

By Ayodele Oni

The underground crisis among three chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state has resulted into personal and open attacks among them.

The State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu at one side, the duo of Senator Ajayi Boroffice  and former minister, Tayo Alasoadura have engaged themselves in a cold war over some emerging issues concerning national politics within the APC.

Alasoadura had resigned as minister of state, Niger/Delta to re contest for Ondo central senatorial seat, which he lost during the primary election, while Boroffice, now outgoing deputy majority leader, has been in the senate for five terms representing Ondo north.

The latest altercation was as a result of Governor Akeredolu’s statement in which he kicked against the zoning arrangement of the leadership of the tenth national assembly.

The Governor had, remarked among others that “the move to zone the National Assembly leadership positions on the behest of interested personalities with perceived closeness to the President-elect manifestingly, lays the dangerous foundation of distrust, needless suspicion even as it structures nothing but a combination of booby traps. We must avoid all these.”

In their reactions, Alasoadura and Boroffice accused the Governor of anti party activities and should be called to order.

One of the Governor’s Aide, Doyin Odebowale in his reply to the remarks by two APC chieftains, stated that they are the ones that have indulged in anti party activities going by their roles during the recently concluded general elections during which they worked against the APC.

“The Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, CON, has left no one in doubt that he will always challenge any act which suggests injustice or impropriety from any quarters.

“He has never been apologetic for standing by the people when others try to be politically correct. He has been a strong party man who has never failed to stand against all partisans of injustice.

“It is not a recompense for political grandstanding that the people of Ondo, South West and indeed the entire South, in general, consider him the conscience of the country. He is not the type to play to the gallery in order to please any fleeting and parochial interests.

The Governor’s Aide said that everything will be done to ensure that the President- elect, Bola Tinubu, is not surrounded by those that will lead him astray in the task of rebuilding the country.

“Deliberative governance entails wide consultations, engagements, concessions and agreements. No one will be permitted to elevate hypocrisy and sycophancy to the status of an enviable art.

“The President Elect will be advised but will also be engaged, vigorously, on matters of optimum performance and collective interests by the true representatives of the people of this country.

“Any politician anxious of losing patronage in the next dispensation should start looking for other means of sustenance.”