APC Chieftain warns Tunji-Ojo against funding discord in Ondo Politics

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Sunday Taiwo has issued a stern warning to the Minister of Interior, Hon. Bunmi Tunji-Ojo, over alleged funding of activities that are causing disunity within the party in Ondo State.

In an open letter addressed to the minister, the party stalwart expressed concern that some political jobbers were using support groups to undermine the Executive Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who is a senior leader of the party in the state.

Read full letter below:

APC Chieftain warns Tunji-Ojo against funding discord in Ondo Politics

OPEN LETTER TO THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF INTERIOR, HON BUNMI TUNJI OJO

I sincerely use this medium to commend you for the timely and innovative ideas you brought into the ministry you oversee for the good people of our dear great nation Nigeria, you have done exceptionally well in the ministry of Interior due to the enabling environment created for you by the administration of our visionary president Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, GCON, I therefore commend both of you for the job well done while we expect you both to do more.

My dear brother and friend, have you noticed recently that you are funding discord and disunity in your state, Ondo State by allowing some political jobbers to oversee so call Support Groups that look for every opportunity to discredit and disrespect the Executive Governor of your state?
Are you funding the so-called Grassroots Mobilization for Tinubu (GMT) to insult the Governor who is of the same party and invariably the Leader of the party in the State? Is insulting the leader of the party Mr President wants to use for his second term ambition a marketing or dis-marketing strategy? Why allowing the unrepentant persecutors of Lucky Ayedatiwa by giving them a platform to continue their persecution? Did you ever notice that your Director General of GMT Hon Saka Yusuf Ogunleye was on air raining abuses on the then Deputy Governor of his state on September, 2023 when he got the news that Aketi was being brought back into the state? Why encouraging Hon Saka Yusuf Ogunleye and his likes that failed to secure appointments in the administration of Aiyedatiwa as GMT members and continue to fund them and support them with security details to fight who God is always with?
Have you ever sat yourself down to learn from Mr President; your direct boss?
Was this the way our dear Tinubu insulted the party leaders when it was vividly visible they were working against him? Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu with others created a platform; funded the platform and worked vigorously for the candidates of the party all over the country; when those he funded sidelined him in governance did he form support group to discredit them? He even worked assiduously for their second term before he began to work for his own ambition to become the president in that same party. He had the ample time to recruit people to discredit the state and national leaders of the party when it was evident that they were working against his ambition, he never did so but was focus to get victory and God gave him victory eventually.
My dear brother; what on earth would have happened that you allowed political jobbers to deceive you into funding them for their own ulterior motives. Why do you keep funding those who had decided to disdain the present Executive Governor of your state because Aketi his boss openly declared before the whole world that he would want Ayedatiwa to succeed him because he (Ayedatiwa) had been a consistent loyal person. These set of people you fund and given a platform using President Tinubu’s name to create and spread discord in the state never supported the President’s ambition in his first term; except they had been economical with the truths; and one of the reasons they disdained Ayedatiwa then was his support for Tinubu during his first term presidential aspiration. Because of lack of coordination due to the health of Aketi then; his cabinet members and loyalists chose different aspirants to support and it was only Ayedatiwa and few others that chose to support Tinubu in his first term aspiration because he categorically told his (Ayedatiwa) loyalists to work for the aspiration of Mr President then.
In my own right thinking and I stand to be corrected; whatever support group wishing and willing to support the second term ambition of our dear own President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should strive to work with the leaders of the party in the state under the supervision of the Governor of Ondo state who had openly declared his support several times at every occasion for second time ambition of Mr President.
My Hon minister of Interior; I am from the same local government with your Director General of Grassroots Mobilization for Tinubu (GMT), and it was very unfortunate you never did your thorough background works before appointing him and gave him security details to be working against the leaders of the party in the state. Let me use this medium to tell you that Hon Saka Yusuf Ogunleye cannot win anyone to his side let alone convincing anyone to support you or Mr President for he does not have a good name for himself; he cannot confidently walk around in his street without police ordely even when he was a serving commissioner for fear of being attacked by people of his community. Ask him to point to his achievements and contributions to the development of his community and other communities in Akure North throughout his stay at the corridor of power. Is it the people he slept with their wives in the communities that would listen to him or be happy to pitch their tents with him? He never supports a female politician without sleeping with her neither does he support a viable candidate except stooges that he can lead by the nose; there is evidence of this if you wish to dig deeper.

In his recent media rants he alleged that Mrs Tomisin Edu Falade is Mr Governor preferred aspirant; and one Hon Babateye is her coordinator in Ward 4 Akure North; this aspirant he alleged to have been favored by Mr Governor had been working and walking round the federal constituency she wishes to represent paying her dues; she had given scholarships, distributed relief materials and palliatives; visited less privileged homes and party leaders in the constituency; all these Saka Yusuf Ogunleye never did throughout his time as commissioner representing Akure North. Which of the aspirants for house of representative is not seeking the support of Mr Governnor? Saka’s tools had always remain blackmails, scandals, lies and physical attacks. It was divine intervention that saved Hon Engr Leye Akinola from him when he sent members of driver union to attack him during the congress in 2018. The evidence is also there if you care to know.

Hon Engr Leye Akinola had challenged him to a political walk through his ward in Obaile when he was commissioner to know the person that controlled the grassroots which he refused and I am also using this opportunity to ask you to tell him to go ahead with the political challenge walk in his ward between him and Hon Engr Leye Akinola, the present Commissioner for Agriculture and Forestry. If he could bring out members of the party in the ward to this walk better than the commissioner; then he should be regarded as a great grassroots mobilizer indeed.

If indeed you want GMT to make impacts for Mr President’s second term ambition; graciously remove Hon Saka Yusuf Ogunleye as the DG and clearly state the objectives of the support group rather than using it to destabilise the party Mr President wants to use in the state.

Hon Minister; do not allow political jobbers and sworn enemies of Ayedatiwa despite him extending olive hands to them even when he was deputy governor use your resources and machineries to create discord and rancor in the party and in the state at large using GMT to vent their personal angers because they fail to secure appointments in Ayedatiwa administration.

Wishing you wisdom and sound health to be a better ambassador of Ondo state and to do more exploits as a minister of Interior of our great country Nigeria.

God bless you;
God bless Ondo State of Nigeria
And God bless Nigeria our great Nation.

Sunday Taiwo writes from ward 11; Akure North.