By Ezra Ukanwa

Over 180 civil society organization in Nigeria, under the aegis of Civil Society Groups for Good Governance, CSGGG, has cautioned against making false assertions and inflammable statements capable of denying Ogun West district further benefits from the Federal Government, FG.

This is, however, coming on the heels of a statement made by a socio-democratic group, Yewa/Awori Youth Network, alleging that the Senator representing Ogun West at the National Assembly, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi of allegedly personalizing projects funded by the federal government; the group described the statement as an unsubstantial and baseless finding, and politically orchestrated.

The President of the group, Comrade Ogakwu Dominic, in a press statement made available to newsmen on Thursday, equally faulted the allegations that the senator had connived with some federal government agencies to portray projects funded by the federal government as one done from his personal coffers.

He emphasized that projects introduced or executed by Yayi should serve as a source of pride, not a source of political witch-hunting.

The statement reads: “As watchdog of the society and as first-hand observers who were invited by the organizers of the three days empowerment programme of Distinguished Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola aka Yayi, our attention has been drawn to the recent publications by Yewa/Awori Youth Network, against Senator Solomon Yayi.

“While it is obvious as usual that political traducers and co-travelers are on the verge of series of campaign of calumny against a performing steward and it may not be too necessary to dignify their action, it is also equally important to put the record straight to avoid the pitfall of a poor public perception of the good intentions of what can be described as the “Mother of all empowerment” as we cannot sit back and allow their fabricated tales gain momentum for even a second.

“Senator Yayi, has never taken personal credit for project executed, in fact if the network did their due diligence without bias or have the interest of Ogun West as they claimed, by keenly recording the empowerment schemes of Senator Adeola, they would have discovered that Yayi, has always, disclosed and given credit to the MDAs where Zonal Interventions Projects are domiciled or facilitated from.”

Also, he openly stated that the projects were facilitated to enhance and improve the district that has suffered lack of major development for the longest time as a result of bad representation and incapable leadership.