The Ogun State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last governorship election, Hon. Ladi Adebutu, as “a clown who is only being pursued by creditors, his ego and failed ambition”.
Reacting to a news report credited to Adebutu, who lost the March 19, 2023 governorship election, that he has “gone into hiding over an alleged threat to his life,” the APC in a statement signed by its publicity secretary, Tunde Oladunjoye, described Adebutu’s “latest script as advance-clowning taken too far”.
“We do not want to believe that someone who had dreamt of being the Governor of a state like Ogun state is oblivious of the fact that it is a normal practice to downsize security details after elections, except you are a President, Vice- President, Governor and others.
“Perhaps, he wants to continue to hold on to security operatives paid by tax payers’ money and continue to commit illegalities as he did on the day of the last governorship election when he was moving from Ogun East senatorial district to the others in breach of the Electoral laws and guidelines,” the statement said.
The APC further stated that: “However, we are aware of the fact that hundreds of gullible members of the PDP who were deceitfully given ATM cards with the inscriptiton ‘Dame Caroline Adebutu Empowerment Scheme’ and deceived that they would get N10,000 after the election, but who could not access the money, have been trooping daily to Adebutu’s house and farm, and laying siege in order to collect money promised them.
“Our advice to Adebutu is that ‘promise is a debt until it is paid’, he should pay without further delay, his sundry creditors, agents, officials and contractors, and stop muck-racking in a vainglorious attempt to cover his misdeeds.
- “It would be recalled that recently, a letter of appointment by PDP/Adebutu to one of his lackeys went viral. The latest is his funny request for security cover equivalent to that of an elected state governor! Adebutu should just stop all these hallucinations and be prepared to face the laws of the land for his unprecedented and documented electoral fraud, which he and his ramshackle party perpetrated during the last elections. He can only run but cannot hide forever from the long arms of the law”, the statement concluded.
