The Oyo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the incumbent Governor Seyi Makinde to prepare for his defeat in the forthcoming guber election.
The APC said no amount of fake news can save Governor Makinde and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from defeat.
This what made known in a statement on Tuesday by the APC Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare.
He accused the PDP of being behind the spread of fake news purportedly issued by one Alhaji Bashir Adeola, a Chieftain of APC in the state.
Adeola, was reported to have spoken in condemnation of his party to favour PDP.
Reacting, the APC spokesperson dismissed the said news as fake, saying that the name, Bashir Adeola, was a fictitious name.
According to him, the report was the handiwork of some desperados in power who had been overwhelmed by the political fireworks of Oyo APC as demonstrated in the last few months.
“We have painstakingly checked our party membership register and found no member by the name Bashiru Adeola.
“We, then wonder where the PDP media got the ghost to speak with them as a chieftain of Oyo APC,” he said.
Sadare said that no amount of such sponsored fake news as well as unsubtantiated claims against the opposition would stop Makinde and PDP from imminent sack in the forthcoming general elections.
He said that some funny characters around the governor felt that “this was the best way to mitigate the effects of political affliction befalling their administration and party every day”.
“A governor who neither does well with governance, nor runs an all-inclusive government cannot have the trust of serious politicians and voters.
“They just package their usual lies and put fictitious names as the source whereas the so-called Bashir Adeola was without a known Ward, Local Government Area or traceable residence or office address.
“They came up with the latest spurious story aimed at discrediting APC in an attempt to water down the adverse effect of Hon. Olusegun Olaleye’s defection to the APC,” he said.
