Oyo ACN faults Alao-Akala's claim

The Action Congress of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter, has taken former governor of the state, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, to task for claiming to be a statesman.The party did so in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Dauda Kolawole, on Tuesday.Alao-Akala had told journalists in Ogbomosho on Sunday that he had now become a statesman by virtue of his former status and would not criticise Governor Abiola Ajimobi in the open.The statement reads in part, "It is only in Nigeria with our warped values and loss of sense of shame that an Alao-Akala, who is currently standing trial for stealing our state blind, will claim to be a statesman. In civilised societies, he should be injail for destroying everything governance represents."It stated that the party could not remember at any point that Ajimobi ever attacked the former governor in the public. It added, "Even though what he met as record of administration of the state during the PDP-led government should make the (former) governor to wonder whether those who pillaged Oyo State this recklessly do not qualify for a sanatorium."The party also said in the statement that the kind of diplomacy that Alao-Akala demanded from Ajimobi was a way of ensuring that his regime was unchallenged.The ACN added, "It would take sagacity to rebuild a house of ruins left by Alao-Akala. He destroyed our pride and place as a people. He gave the whole world the impression that anyone from Oyo State was hollow-brained and has a predatory instinct."It advised the former governor to concentrate on the anti-graft case against him rather than seeking to be a statesman.It said, "The pseudo-reconciliation can never come to fruition. It is like an assemblage of viper, scorpion and rattlesnake. The people of Oyo State know the antecedents of these people. They will need the worlds greatest deodorant to remove the fart they left in the administration of our state. The people are waiting for them."
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