{"id":70002,"date":"2018-12-15T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T10:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70002"},"modified":"2018-12-15T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T12:02:42","slug":"oyo-apc-replies-shittu-your-threat-is-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70002","title":{"rendered":"Oyo APC Replies\u00a0Shittu Your Threat Is Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oyo state chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has said that instead of joining words, it has decided to ignore the utterances attributed to the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, over his decision not to support the party\u2019s governorship candidate at the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n

While addressing the press recently, Shittu said he was short-changed by the state governor, Abiola Ajimobi, and denied the party\u2019s governorship ticket despite paying a huge amount to purchase the expression of interest form.<\/p>\n

Consequently, he said he would not campaign for the party\u2019s flag bearer or work for his success in the election.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Shittu\u2019s threat, the state chapter of the APC, in a release issued by the Director of Media, Research and Strategies and Publicity Secretary, AbdulAzeez Olatunde, on Friday, described it as lacking substance and \u2018an empty threat.\u2019<\/p>\n

The release entitled, \u201cRejoinder to Barr. Adebayo Shittu\u2019s gaffe,\u201d challenged the minister to list his results in both 2007 and 2011 in his polling unit, ward and local government against his opponents for the public to know whether he is an asset or liability to the party.<\/p>\n

The statement reads in part, \u201cAll Progressive Congress, Oyo State Chapter has been watching the mouth Crossfire being emitted by our honourable Minister of Communication, Barr Adebayo Shittu, in recent times with dismay because of the following reasons:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Party believed that Barr Shittu\u2019s contribution to the electoral victory of APC and the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 is not traceable beyond 30 minutes cameo appearance in the public rally in ancient Mapo Hall, yet he is the greatest beneficiary by becoming a Minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party challenges Barr Adebayo Shittu to list his poll results in both 2007 and 2011 in his Polling unit, Ward and Local Government against his opponents for the public to know whether you are an asset or liability to the Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is common knowledge that his two elections were colossal failures so this threat not to support Adelabu, lacks condiments of substance and its in fact an empty threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cA translated Yoruba adage has it that: a tree which one rests upon but could not support one, if such a tree decides otherwise, it\u2019s impact would obviously be minimally felt.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, Barr Adebayo Shittu is expected to know that, Oyo state chapter of APC did not screen him as such we are aghast at his transferred aggression.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, as a self acclaimed Islamic cleric, we thought he would live an exemplary life and be a role model, going by Quran 3:26, where it was explicitly stated that \u201cAllah giveth Power to whom thou pleaseth.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oyo state chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has said that instead of joining words, it has decided to ignore the utterances attributed to the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, over his decision not to support the party\u2019s governorship candidate at the 2019 general elections. While addressing the press recently, Shittu said he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658],"class_list":["post-70002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}