The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has described the reported impeachment plot against Gov. Seyi Makinde as a badly written script aimed at distracting the general public.
In a statement by its Publicity Secretary in Oyo State, Mr Olawale Sadare,the APC alleged that the purported script was also meant to attract undue sympathy to the governor who faced imminent political retirement as a result of his own actions.
Sadare said that some members of the Oyo State House of Assembly believed to be loyal to the governor came out on Tuesday to deny their involvement in a purported impeachment plot.
Sadare said that the lawmakers claimed that the impeachment plot was allegedly sponsored by some prominent personalities including President Bola Tinubu, Oba Rashidi Ladoja and former First Lady in the state, Mrs Florence Ajimobi.
“Oyo APC dismissed the alleged involvement of President Tinubu and others whose names were mentioned in the unsubstantiated claims,” the spokesman said.
Sadare said that the governor ought to have been impeached long ago if the State House of Assembly members were alive to their responsibilities in view of several alleged recorded cases of abuse of office since May 2019.
“Gov. Makinde just decided to get some of his yes men to implement a badly written script aimed at offering him a soft landing in the minds of some gullible supporters including those who have put their political future in his hands.
“Sad enough, an informed source had it that the impeachment story was sold to mitigate the effects of the revelation made by the former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, about the plan to dethrone the Olubadan.
“The fact remains that no external person is interested in an impeachment process against a governor who has already reached last stretch,” Sadare said.
According to him, no amount of blackmail or propaganda can save the governor from impeachment as the APC believes that his false alarm will serve as an eye opener to the whole world that he has skeletons in the cupboard.
Sadare cited the alleged misappropriation of the 33 local government council funds, land scams, contract cost inflation, diversion of the federal government’s N50 billion Relief Fund meant for the victims of Bodija Explosion among others.
He said that the alleged misappropriation remained impeachable offences which shall come to bear sooner than later.
