The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 18 governorship election in the state, Oladipupo Adebutu, to submit himself to security agencies over the allegations of electoral fraud levelled against him.

The party also urged Adebutu to stop dishing out false hope to his followers, stressing that his alleged atrocities during the governorship poll would be pursued to a logical conclusion in court.

The Ogun APC said this in a statement issued on Friday by its Assistant Publicity Secretary, Olusola Ogunsanya Blessed, in reaction to a statement credited to Adebutu, where he raised issues concerning the last gubernatorial election in the state, including the involvement of a former governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel, among others.

The ruling party said the statement issued by Adebutu was laced with intent to cover up certain atrocities and change the real narrative.

The APC said: “Adebutu’s pattern of defence in which he described Daniel as ‘a very rich man in his own right’ obviously depicts how shallow he is despite his age. His line of thought regrettably defies critical reasoning and is a reflection of his highfalutin and bogus persona.

“It is even more childish for the PDP gubernatorial candidate to ignorantly mention his father and Gbenga Daniel as benefactors of Governor Dapo Abiodun, astutely elevating beer parlour gossip and clueless innuendos as tools of public engagement.

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“On the issue of performance and reelection of Governor Dapo Abiodun, it is surprising that a man like Oladipupo Adebutu, who is  known to be irredeemably indolent and mortally afflicted with mental laziness could accuse any government of non-performance and corruption, when he lacks the intellectual stamina to do a thorough assessment of government policies and activities.”

The Ogun APC further accused Adebutu of stooping so low to be involved in alleged electoral malpractices and money laundering and comprised the electoral process.

It added: “The most pertinent among issues raised by Adebutu in his treatise is that of acceptability and popularity of Governor Dapo Abiodun. The salient question to ask Adebutu is this: If as he claimed Governor Dapo Abiodun was not popular and couldn’t have won the March 18th poll, why did Adebutu and his accomplices resort to broad-day rigging by conniving with Zenith Bank to issue 200,000 ATM verve credit cards, preloaded with N10,000 each to bribe the electorate in the State?

“A popular candidate would only have carefully monitored his votes like Governor Dapo Abiodun did, and not stooped so low as to go the way of criminality, audaciously breaching the sanctity of the electoral process like Adebutu and the PDP did.

“If Adebutu is the man he claims to be, he should summon the courage to come back home and submit himself to the security agencies for prosecution. This is not the time for him to give false hope to his gullible followers.

“And to be sure, the  people of Ogun State are solidly behind their Governor, and are very optimistic that  their  stolen votes  by Adebutu and the PDP through massive rigging will be retrieved by the Tribunal soonest.”

The Star