Engr Seyi Makinde, the Governor-Elect of Oyo State has been advised by the present Governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi to focus on developmental issues instead of its renewed campaign of calumny against his person, family and administration.
The governor, who spoke on Tuesday in a statement by his Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy, Mr. Bolaji Tunji, submitted that the renewed campaign of calumny was aimed at rubbishing his eight-year selfless service.
Ajimobi said more than two weeks after the general elections have produced winners and losers, the opposition parties ought to start talking about their plans for the state and how to build on the foundation of development laid by his administration.
The governor said he was appalled by the unprovoked media attacks by the opposition parties, especially sympathisers of the PDP and its governorship candidate, who were still practising politics of bitterness that Oyo State, under his tenure, has since left behind.
The governor appealed to the traditional and online media practitioners to be circumspect in churning out unverified information being supplied to them by their unscrupulous sources, who were bent on spreading inflammatory rhetoric.
He said the purveyors of falsehood have recruited some online medium to carry out some of their nefarious activities.
Ajimobi said: “Now that elections have been won and lost, there should be an end to acrimonious and incendiary comments. Political discussion has moved from the pre-2011 era. Our focus is on politics of issues and development.
“That is what we expect from them, not personal attacks and falsehood-laced statements indicating their unpreparedness for governance.
“I’m not unaware that during campaigns some politicians adopted the campaign of calumny as strategy believing it would give them undue advantage, but such does not last. What the electorate expects is to be educated on their blueprint for the development of the state.”
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