An Abuja-based lawyer, Barrister Kayode Ajulo, has described the Action Congress of Nigeria and its National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as hypocrites for the role they are seeking to play in the fifth memorial lecture of the late Ondo State Governor, Chief Adebayo Adefarati.
Ajulo, in a text message sent to The Eagle Online, said that Tinubu had betrayed the people of Ondo State, including the late Adefarati, enough than for him to seek to play any prominent role in the memorial lecture.
He said that the former Lagos State governor betrayed Adefarati, who was elected on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy and was the then leader of the party, by having another parallel structure of the party and eventually forming the Action Congress, which later became the Action Congress of Nigeria.
Ajulo said Tinubu also betrayed and mistreated another prominent indigene of Ondo State, Chief Gani Fawehinmi.
He alleged that when Fawehinmi came up with the suit seeking to unravel the truth behind the genuineness of the certificates of Tinubu, the former Lagos State helmsman sent thugs after him.
He added that when eventually Fawehinmi died, Tinubu was one of those who first showed up in his house “to shed crocodile tears.”
The message from Ajulo reads in full: “Ondo State people are not fools and not that forgetful of the unjust treatments of their notable sons and daughters by Bola Ahmed Tinubu and ACN.
“I therefore see the Chief Adebayo Adefarati’s memorial lecture commemorating the 5th anniversary of the death of the former Governor of Ondo State in which Bola Hammed Tinubu and other ACN stalwarts are to chair the events as hypocritical dance on the former governor’s grave.
“It is crass desecration of the man’s memory.
“It should be noted that when the late legal legend, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, took Tinubu to court over his certificate forgery, Tinubu sent thugs to harass the Ondo Chief, where his car was vandalised.
“But immediately the man died, Tinubu was one of the first callers in the man’s house to shed crocodile tears.
“The same treatment was metted of late Chief Adefarati, who was the Leader and Chairman of the AD.
“But Tinubu and others betrayed him.
“They created factions in the AD and went behind the man to create the ACN, which was shocking to the old man and sent him to his early grave.
“But today, Tinubu and others are celebrating his 5th anniversary.”