The Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State accused the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 poll in the state, Chief Bayo Adelabu, for scoring Governor Seyi Makinde low on performance.
The APC in the state said discrediting Makinde’s first year performance in office was a show of ignorance.
Adelabu, during a live radio programme in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, stated that in the last one year, the Makinde-led administration had retrogressed.
However, the PDP in a statement signed by its state Publicity Secretary, Akeem Olatunji, and made available to journalists in Ibadan on Sunday, described his comments as “an untrue and deliberate misrepresentation of information aimed at garnering political relevance.”
It described the APC as a bad and rejected product that nobody takes seriously having failed in the last eight years by plunging the state into debt.
The statement read in part, “Our attention has been drawn to some outburst of Chief Bayo Adelabu while featuring on a live programme on a radio station. Chief Adelabu in his usual way, exposed his ignorance of government’s workings.
“Ordinarily, we would not have dignified such comments with a response but it is imperative to address some key areas that the APC chieftain talked about ignorantly in order to guide unsuspecting members of the public against agents of deliberate misinformation.
“Chief Adelabu alluded to a baseless submission that Oyo State was moving backward under the Makinde-led government but failed to acknowledge the improved standard of living and the quality of life in the state brought about by the PDP-led administration.
“We need to remind the Oyo State chapter of the APC and its chieftain that the essence of government is to impact the people. Anything short of improved standard of human lives implies failure on the part of government.
“It is on record that Governor Makinde presented a clear and unambiguous blueprint to the people of the state upon assumption of office which include the four cardinal points such as free and quality education, quality healthcare system, security, development of physical infrastructures, and economic development through Agribusiness revolution.”
