BY OLA AJAYI
IBADAN—The emergence of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala as the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party in the governorship primary on Wednesday has further deepened the political gulf between him and other chieftains of the party.

Though, awarded one vote against Akala’s 1,249 votes in the election, Elder Wole Oyelese, a former Minister of Power and Steel alleged that the governor was a desperate liar in search of a dignity he did not deserve as he denied ever being at the venue of the election where the results were concocted.

For the governor to have scored him one vote in an election he was already challenging in court at the time it was being conducted, he said, it was meant to ridicule him and at the same time showed the “shallowness of the minds behind the plot.”

Oyelese, while feeling sorry for the PDP as a party for allowing such an illegality called the state congress which the party’s representatives or INEC did not supervise, said, if a free and fair election was arranged between him and the governor, he would beat the governors hands down.

He said, “When the chips are down, Akala hasn’t got the credibility to face me in an electoral contest. It is a pity that in Oyo State, governance has really gone dishonest, primitive and mediocre and sunk to an abysmal level where lying has become an act and brigandage rules the clime”.

“This concocted result while attempting to ridicule me in itself shows the shallowness of the minds behind the plot. Smarter people with alert minds would have ‘awarded’ me some 200 votes in order to give their lie a taint of credibility. But that’s the class of minds running Oyo State”, he said.

But, responding to the comments of the former minister, Governor Alao-Akala said through his Special Adviser on Public Communication, Prince Dotun Oyelade that  Oyelese should stop belly-aching over the gubernatorial primaries that had been adjudged to be successful by the PDP National Headquarters, INEC, SSS and the Police.