A group working for the actualization of Tinubu/Shettima ticket, as well as the All round success of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has called The Ogbomosho Progressive Band, describing the serving Minister of Youth and Sport, Chief Sunday Dare as a vindictive and treacherous element working to see failure of the APC in the coming general election in Oyo State. It queried Dare over his “glaring anti-party activities”.
The Group head, Mr Sunday Abayomi carpeted the Youth minister as working in connivance with rival party to undo the APC in the state at all cost and has even held several meetings to that effect. The group described Dare as unfair to the party under whose platform he festered to glory despite his untoward disconnect from the state chapter of the party before his appointment as a Minister.
Mr. Abayomi argued that Dare’s deliberate absence at the recently held Ogbomosho rally tagged ‘’ Ogbomoso Walk for Tinubu/Shetima’’ and key stakeholders engagements that spanned a total of four days was the height of his perfidy and ingratitude to the APC despite being properly briefed and cordially invited.
He did not even care to be represented. Dare also refused to support the party even in his Local Government.
The statement partly read, “We wish to draw the attention of President Buhari , Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other key stakeholders of our party to the continuous Anti-Party role of Chief Sunday Dare, minister of Youth and Sport which is capable of inhibiting the success of our party in the coming general election. Dare and his band of lost sheep has continued to hobnob with leadership of a rival party in the state in a ploy to frustrate the growing acceptability of the APC in the state particularly in Ogbomosho Axis where he originates from. It is unfortunate that the same Dare that withheld participation in the now hugely successful APC Ogbomosho walk for Tinubu/Shettima was to resurface 48 hours later with a suspicious notice of meeting purportedly inviting stakeholders to his private residence in Ogbomosho for a sinister agenda.
Unfortunately, the same notice of meeting was signed by one of his stooges who is now a member of a rival party. Dare has also vowed to deploy state resources within his care to stop the APC in the state, swearing to negatively affect the fortune of all APC candidates in the state”.
You will recalled that Dare had earlier purchased nomination forms of another party for his loyalists to contest against candidates of the APC in Ogbomosho including Olamiju Akala, whose hand was raised in Ibadan by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Dare’s chief benefactor and presidential candidate of our party.
The group admonished Dare to resign his membership of the APC, as well as his position as Youth and Sport minister so as to be able to concentrate and mobilize support for his candidates in other Party. The game excludes the middle. Dare cannot serve God and mammon together at the same time. The group called on President Mohammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call Dare to order or he would be compelled to drop his position in the APC. The statement concluded.
