The Action Congress of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter, has lamented the absence of quality persons in the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, a condition that has stopped it from appreciating the landmark achievements of the governor Abiola Ajimobi administration in the state.
This was contained in a statement issued by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Hon. Dauda Kolawole, in reply to the criticism against the ACN-led government in the state.
According to the party, the PDP could not see the depth of the revolution of the Abiola Ajimobi government because the composition of the party was bereft of lettered persons who could take a dispassionate view of the administration in the state.
The party said: “It is understandable that a government that is constructing/renovating 199 roads throughout the state cannot excite the PDP; a government that has treated over 350,000 persons through its free health programme cannot amount to much in their parlous estimation; a government that has returned Oyo State to its original state, from a state that was notorious all over the world as a pristine state of violence between motor park touts, ably abetted by the government, cannot rank much in the PDP estimation; a state that is constructing a world-class overhead bridge, the first in the history of civilian administration in the state, cannot win their trophy; a state that has succeeded in getting investors’ interests, so much that Oyo State was named by the Financial Times of London as one of the top 10 investment destinations in Africa cannot attract the charlatans.”
The party said that it was regrettable that there was hardly anyone in the opposition PDP who could be relied upon for the quality of intelligence of the heydays of the state which earned Oyo as Pacesetter State status.
The statement added: “Check out the PDP Public Relations Officer who issued the release in question. He was a member of the State House of Assembly during the infamous brigandage in the House against Governor Rashidi Ladoja. He was one of the dramatis personae in the impeachment saga in which the late motor park tout, Eleweomo, impersonated the Speaker to illegally remove a democratically elected governor. He was one of the hangers-on who surrounded Chief Alao-Akala while he was Police DPO. So what do you expect from that quality of person?”