By Daud Olatunji

ABEOKUTA—THE All Progressives Congress, APC and former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Ogun State, Sina Kawonise yesterday, traded words over comments by the former governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel on the current government.

Daniel, at a Labour Party, LP, rally in Ibiade, Ogun Waterside area  of the state  weekend condemned Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s administration for allegedly killing the economic base of the state

But in a swift reaction, state chapter of APC, in defence of  Governor Amosun, insisted that Daniel should channel his energy “towards extricating himself from the web of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, where he is currently facing prosecution.”

The party in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Sola Lawal, said this would be a noble course to take by the former governor, instead of distracting the incumbent from the task of

rebuilding all that Daniel dismantled in the state.

He said, “It is regrettable that pariahs, who ought to be behind bars for sundry unmitigated crimes against the people, were pontificating on the way forward for the same hapless people. The eight locust years of the Daniel administration left a legacy of executive pilfering, brigandage, huge proliferation of arms among youths, widespread dejection among the people and general air of homelessness.

But defending Daniel, Kawonise asked the state government to address the issues raised by the former governor instead of resorting to using abusive words.

Kawonise, a chieftain and governorship aspirant of LP in a statement said “The question is: Which of the following recent public statement by Otunba Daniel is frivolous? That the road projects embarked upon by the Amosun governments are mostly misplaced priorities. The costs of the road projects are grossly inflated and beyond all known parameters of public work costing.”