From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has knocked a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Segun Sowunmi, over his letter to the newly appointed Special Adviser on Security to President Bola Tinubu, Nuhu Ribadu, urging him to call Governor Dapo Abiodun to order on security matters in the state.
Sowunmi in a letter to Ribadu had alleged Governor Abiodun of “elevating thuggery and brigandage” in the state, which culminated into a physical attack on him by alleged APC members at premises of the Ogun State High Court, Isabo, Abeokuta, where the Election Petitions Tribunal was sitting.
Reacting to Sowunmi’s letter, the Ogun APC, in a statement signed by Olusola Ogunsanya Blessed, the
Assistant State Publicity Secretary, described the outburst of the former spokesperson of Atiku Campaign Organization in the 2019 general election, as that of “a man with deflated ego, but seeking relevance to stay afloat by all means”.
According to the statement, Sowunmi was never attacked by the APC loyalists, but was rather humiliated at the court by his aggrieved PDP members who publicly accused him of double-face and double dealing.
The statement added that the gubernatorial aspirant of the PDP in the 2023 general election, since the incident, had tried “unsuccessfully to put the blame on a peace-loving Governor Abiodun who had since settled down squarely with the business of government after his unassailable victory at the polls”.
The double-faced, double-dealing Sowunmi, a sby his aggrieved PDP party members when he showed up in his usual garrulous manner at the Election Petition Tribunal, sitting at the High Court, Isabo, Abeokuta, tried unsuccessfully to put the blame on a peace loving Governor Dapo Abiodun who has settled down squarely with the business of government after his unassailable victory at the polls.
The statement reads in part: “Sowunmi in his warped congratulatory message was only being clever by half. Or is it not preposterous that this same self-acclaimed PDP Chieftain whose own rickety party has challenged the victory of Ribadu’s APC in court at the federal and state levels, albeit porously, was quick to accept the appointment made by the same party?
This loquacious fellow should tuck-his tail under crotch as his well known unprincipled character, noise making and attention seeking venture have continued to be objects of public opprobrium. This rabble rousing must stop. Sowunmi blabs for cash and extremely enjoys listening to his own voice.
“It is true that he long ago confessed to associates of having been rehabilitated from his ‘spurs’, but recent events have shown that if there was any rehabilitation at all, it was not completed and there is urgent need for revisitation, reexamination and wholistic rehabilitation.
“APC is vindicated as a duly elected government by Sowunmi’s congratulatory message; that despite the unreasonable challenge of the same government by PDP in courts, a spokesperson to the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who is also a former governorship aspirant of the party in Ogun State, has congratulated the Former EFCC boss, Nuru Ribadu, on his recent appointment as Special Adviser on Security by APC-led government of President Bola Tinubu.
“The recent desperate attempt of Segun Sowunmi to now cultivate , Nuru Ribadu, is not only intriguing, but also a clear confirmation that the hitherto regular cash from Ladi Adebutu, the defeated PDP governorship candidate at the March 18 election, who is currently a fugitive in UK running from the charges of money laundering, vote buying and criminal breaches of Electoral Act preferred against him by the Federal Government of Nigeria has stopped. Sowunmi is therefore sorely in need of alternative source of easy money to meet his unenviable and wasteful lifestyle.
“While we reckon with Sowunmi’s acceptance of the victory of our party at the polls, we however warn all our party leaders to treat Sowunmi deservedly as a leper that he is, while advising him to find a suitable job in order to meet his insatiable appetite for cash”.