Solomon Adeola, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for senator in Ogun West, has been warned not to make any promises he cannot keep by Adekunle Akinlade, the PDP’s deputy governorship candidate in Ogun State.
Adeola, the current senator for Lagos West, moved from Lagos to Ogun West, where he was given the APC’s nomination to contest the 2023 elections.
There have been rumors that the Lagos Senator is actually from Ekiti State since he started claiming to be an indigene of Ogun State.
During his campaign, Senator Adeola promised to build a bridge between Ipokia and Badagry, open the borders, and finish the Ogun State Polytechnic in Ipokia.
He also said that Akinlade had let down the people of Ogun West by agreeing to be Ladi Adebutu’s running mate for the PDP.
Akinlade referred to the Lagos Senator as a “perpetual liar” in response to Adeola’s claims that he acquired an SUV, a Hilux, and cash in order to run for deputy governor of the PDP. He added that he would not have responded to the allegations if they had been made in Ipokia, where he was born and raised.
Akinlade says that the cars Adeola was talking about were bought about eight years ago.
The reason I have been able to maintain those vehicles for so long, as opposed to those who change their vehicles every six months or a year, is because we are not wasteful here in Yewa, according to Akinlade.
“Yayi is like the proverbial one-eyed goat that makes one hate its master,” Akinlade stated in response to the claim that he betrayed Ogun West. He assumed we are all the same since the people we looked up to when we were young betrayed Yewa with those material things, and Yayi has been offering the same things to the elders lining up behind him to betray our shared goals. I responded to him by stating that we are more honorable than that.
Akinlade denied Adeola’s assertions that he would build new bridges to connect Lagos State and reopen the borders in Yewa, adding that “these were all hollow promises as a lawmaker does not have such powers.”
“This man (Adeola) is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, which indicates that the Minister for Finance is under him and that the ministry was responsible for the policies that resulted in the closing of the borders.” So, what has he accomplished on the issue in his more than three years in the Senate, Akinlade wondered?
Akinlade also brought up the fact that the Polytechnic in Ipokia has been closed since 2019 and asked the Lagos Senator, who has close ties to the current government, what he had done to fix the problem.
The former member of the House of Representatives discussed the Ogun West agenda and recalled how Adeola and others banded together to oppose electing the first Ogun West governor in 2019, claiming that “we know he is from Ekiti anyway.”
Akinlade went on to say that his name being on the ballot protects Ogun West’s interests and reassures voters that they won’t be sorry if they vote for the PDP candidates in the February/March 2023 elections.
