The Progressives League, a popular block within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, has discredited the speculation of multiple federal appointments given to a prominent leader of the party in the state, Alhaji Fatai Ibikunle by President Bola Tinubu.
A statement by the Coordinator of the group, Barr Rasheed Adebolu, described the speculation as a figment of the imagination of unscrupulous elements against the prevailing cohesion, peace and unity in the party.
The group frowned at the false claim being propagated in the media by unidentified groups in the Oyo APC on the latest appointment of Fatai Ibikunle as an Executive Director, South West Development Commission (SWDC) by President Bola Tinubu.
“It is quite disturbing that faceless individuals with no identification within our great party are trying hard to weaponize rumors to discredit President Tinubu as being inept and partial in picking party members and technocrats for appointments.
“Truly, Mr. President had earlier announced Alhaji Fatai Ibikunle as a Member of the Code of Conduct of Bureau (CCB), and the bureau was not inaugurated until his latest nomination as the Executive Director, Commercial and Environmental Development in the newly established South West Development Commission (SWDC).”
The group enjoined any individual or group willing to be abreast of the President’s choice to seek facts from appropriate quarters rather than disseminating falsehoods capable of creating disunity among the progressives’ political fold.
Barr Adeolu stressed that the latest announcement of Ibikunle into the South West Development Commission (SWDC) is the most appropriate for former executive aide to late former Governors, Lamidi Onaolapo Adesina and Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi respectively to explore his vast administrative experience towards the realization of the agency’s mandate.
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