The Minister of State for the FCT, Chief Olajumoke Akinjide, has said
that those who claimed not to have benefitted from the multi-million
naira Ramadan gifts she splashed on members of the PDP across the 351
wards in the state can only be faceless politicians.A member of a factional group in the party, Alhaji AbdulRasheed Adebisi, had denied knowledge of the distribution of food items to PDP faithful in the state. But the minister, speaking through her media assistant, Alhaji Kehinde Isiaka, in a statement, maintained that she doled out the items Muslims and Islamic scholars and leaders in all the 351 wards in the state, as she had been doing since assumption of office in 2011, describing the report as sponsored and a failed hatchet job.
“This rejoinder becomes compelling to set the records straight and dispel the wicked and mendacious claim. It bears emphasis to state for the sake of clarity that as it has become her tradition, to reach out to people across the state during festivities.
“This is a verifiable fact as the beneficiaries across the state could easily testify to the minister’s good gesture. However, the unfounded claim by Alhaji AbdulRasheed Adebisi to the contrary has only revealed the antics of the agents of destabilisation whose stock-in-trade is campaign of calumny against leaders with good intentions.
“It is regrettable that at this stage when Akinjide and other good-spirited party chieftains are collaborating efforts to bring back PDP to its former glorious and enviable position in the state, some faceless people without claims to any ward like Adebisi are hell-bent on destroying the party by pulling down its leaders.”
“Let it be reiterated here that no amount of mudslinging or distortion of fact can discourage Akinjide from contributing her quota in building a strong and viable PDP in Oyo State. Her commitment to the welfare of the good people of the state cannot be dampened. Moreover, the people of Oyo State know the leader they can trust,” the statement said.
