The Chairman, Oyo South Senatorial District of the defunct
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Bello Adeleke Oladeji, has warned the
Senator representing the district at the National Assembly, Femi Lanlehin, not
to be used to play a spoiler’s role with a view to disintegrating the party.
He made this known in a release he issued on Sunday, in
response to an interview the Senator granted a national newspaper where he passed
uncomplimentary remarks about the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
Alhaji Oladeji also alleged that the Senator was on his way
out of the party for the Accord Party.
According to the District Chairman, it was uncharitable for
Senator Lanlehin to assume the role of the mouthpiece of the district and the
state party as a whole when no one had given him any such role.
“The Senatorial zone Lanlehin hails from has endorsed the
second term bid of the governor. We wonder where Lanlehin was when the party
made this endorsement which was widely applauded by all our party members. To
allege that the governor induced us to do this is the height of anti-party
activity and an attempt to play the spoiler’s role, with the aim of
destabilizing our party,” Alhaji Oladeji said.
The party district Chairman, who warned Senator Lanlehin to
leave for his Accord Party without setting the party on a collision course with
itself, said that the party in the district endorsed Governor Ajimobi for a
second term because of the illustrious and gallant roles he had performed in
the lives of the people of the state and the party as a whole.
Alleging that Senator Lanlehin had perfected plans to defect
to the Accord Party, the Chairman said that the party in the senatorial district
wished him well but was of the opinion that the Senator would meet his political
waterloo in the party he was heading for.
“As he has always done by changing political parties like a
prostitute changes partner, Senator Lanlehin is on his way to the Accord Party.
If you read his responses to questions he was asked by his interviewer, it was
as if former governor Rashidi Ladoja was speaking. It was the same cadence and
the same warped mind-set aimed at trivializing the monumental developmental
strides of the governor. It is the mindset of the enemies of progress and those
who wanted Oyo State to remain in its static and low level state,” the Chairman
said.
Alhaji Oladeji also said that the Senator was barely
representing the Senatorial district at the National
Assembly as he was
consumed by his destructive bid to unseat the incumbent governor of Oyo State.
“His participation at the Senate is almost nil, as we hardly
hear him participate in debates, make any representation at the National
Assembly or even feel his presence at his Senatorial district.
We would not be
surprised if he is listed as one of the Senators who have initiated zero bills
in the last two years or so. While Senator Ajimobi was at the Senate, he
performed so creditably that the senatorial district did not have any
constraint in nominating him to vie for the governorship of the state,” the
chairman said.
