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October 8, 2015

Buhari’s Cabinet: Oke-Ogun people decry Oyo APC’s stance on Shittu

Buhari’s Cabinet: Oke-Ogun people decry Oyo APC’s stance on Shittu

Mr. Abdur-Raheen Adebayo Shittu

By Ola Ajayi

Also hundreds of Oke-Ogun people have warned leaders of the APC in Oyo State not to work against the nomination of Mr. Adebayo Shittu for ministerial appointment.

The people had on Tuesday  stormed Ibadan, the Oyo state Capital to protest the rejection of their kinsman, Mr. Adebayo Shittu by the leadership of the APC in the state.

Warning that the nomination should not be tampered with, they lamented that the zone had been largely marginalised in the distribution of dividends of democracy in the state.

The aggrieved people complained that they had always been sidelined in previous political appointments even though they had worked tirelessly to put many politicians in power.

Two different groups, Oyo State Youth Assembly and Concerned citizens of Oke Ogun zone led by Alhaji Bashir Mayowa Alade and Mr. Ismail Adewoyin respectively disagreed with the leaders of  APC in the state, Chief Akin Oke and the Secretary of the party, Mr. Mojeed Oloye  who rejected the nomination of Shittu saying, “if the change we desire and yearn for is to be achieved, the choice of Barrister Adebayo Shittu as nominated by President

Muhammadu Buhari is not only sacrosanct but also desirable. Shittu  is not only a disciplined legal icon but also a politician with unblemished records of public service.”