The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State and the state authorities led by Governor Ademola Adeleke have exchanged robust phrases over a controversial billboard that includes President Bola Tinubu and Governor Adeleke in Iwo city.
The billboard, bearing the inscription “Continuity of Progress” and attributed to a bunch recognized as “Osun Leaders of Thought”, was reportedly erected within the early hours of Wednesday.
It options photos of each President Tinubu and Governor Adeleke.
Reacting, APC’s Director of Media and Info, Kola Olabisi, described the billboard as a fraudulent political stunt.
Olabisi additional criticised the location of the billboard, claiming it was designed to present a deceptive impression of political alignment between the president and Governor Adeleke.
“That is the absurd enjoying of soiled politics taken too far,” he stated in a press release launched on Thursday.
“There couldn’t be any acceptable cause for the sponsorship of the fraudulent billboard,” he stated.
He added that the APC strongly condemns the show, which he termed a nostril and eye sore and an act of political heresy.
He maintained that the occasion disassociates itself from the marketing campaign and its implied messages.
Based on the APC, the marketing campaign was orchestrated by unnamed actors making an attempt to falsely hyperlink President Tinubu with the PDP-led state authorities.
“Irrespective of the antics being performed… the efforts to dubiously promote their unsellable political product have refused to fly,” Olabisi acknowledged.
In response, the spokesperson to Governor Adeleke, Olawale Rasheed, accused the APC of struggling an integrity disaster and being unsettled by the governor’s rising recognition.
“The opposition is by now scrambling on what to say. The opposition is confused in regards to the groundswell of assist for Governor Adeleke throughout occasion traces,” Rasheed stated.
He referenced latest achievements of the Adeleke administration, together with a cultural tourism partnership on the British Museum and enterprise linkages by the Nigeria-UK Chamber of Commerce, as sources of the APC’s unease.
He famous endorsements from each federal and non-governmental our bodies as indicators of rising approval and accused the APC of spreading misinformation and being unable to take care of the realities of its declining credibility.
“The opposition is due to this fact working amok, ranting over billboards,” Rasheed remarked.
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