A former member of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon. Lafisoye Akinmoyede (a.k.a. Lafi) has reacted to PMParrot’s report that he was arrested by the police in Osogbo over assault on a chieftain of APC in Lagelu Local Government, Hon.Remi Adebayo.
In his reaction, he said that it was his insistence that one Segun Ogunyemi who is not qualified to attend the leaders’ meeting summoned by the party chairman in their local government should not be allowed in that led to the disagreement.
Hon. Lafisoye explained that what happened was that the party chairman in Lagelu Local Government, Hon. Adeleke had invited only 11 leaders of the party who were former Chairmen and former honourable members that had served in the said local government on the platform of the APC to his house at Iwo road on the 29th July, 2020 for a meeting on the sharing of Ileya gift items donated by the Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial district and the federal house of representatives member representing Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency, Hon. Olu Akintola.
He said that the chairman informed them that he did not want the party executives in the local government to be involved in the sharing of the Ileya gift.
According to Hon Lafi, “The bone of contention is that during the meeting, the complainant, Hon. Remi Adebayo mentioned the name of Segun Ogunyemi (a.k.a. Segmos) who is a former leader of the Legislative Arm in Lagelu Local Government to be among the leaders invited to the meeting. I raised an objection that “Segmos” was not qualified to be part of us as he did not meet the criteria for selection into the meeting. My objection did not go down well with him and that was where commotion ensued.”
Hon. Lafisoye Akinmoyede said that contrary to the claim by Hon. Remi Adebayo on those that had left the party, he submitted that what he said on radio was that he wanted to step aside from politics for some time as a result of the trauma he had gone through during his trial over late Olatoye Sugar’s death but he did not say that he would not participate in partisan politics again.
The former lawmaker who denied breaking chair on the complainant’s head, disclosed that it was not only him that the complainant reported to the police for assault but other eight leaders including Hon. Biodun Adedeji, Hon. Debo Arowomole, Hon. Kehinde Adeleke, Hon. Peter Dairo, Hon. Gbenga Adekanmbi, Hon. Femi Akintunde and Hon. D.A. Lawal.
He added that the police only invited them for settlement, stressing that the party Chairman in the local government, Hon. Adeleke had informed the police that the matter was purely a party affair which would be settled amicably. He added that the police had asked them to nominate two people among the leaders that were invited to come and brief them after the settlement of the matter.
“I want everybody to know that I am not a violent person as being portrayed. Yes, I said that I was stepping aside from politics for some time but when I was invited as one of the leaders of the party in my local government for sharing of Ileya gift items, I considered it necessary to honour the invitation to ensure that there was no rancour and everything went smoothly. My stepping aside for some time does not mean I left my obligation as a leader in the party,” he submitted.
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