Former Minister of Works and National Chairman, Southwest
Agenda for Tinubu presidential ambition codenamed SWAGA 2023, Prince Dayo
Adeyeye, has revealed that 16 All Progressives Congress (APC) governors are
covertly supporting the presidential aspiration of the former Lagos State
Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The group also inaugurated a parallel APC executives at the
Ward and local government levels, describing the Hon Paul Omotoso-led
executives elected by a group loyal to Governor Kayode Fayemi on Saturday as
mere impostors.
Adeyeye spoke in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday, while inaugurating
the factional executives belonging to SWAGA group across the two strata of the
party.
While addressing the factional APC and SWAGA members, Adeyeye said : “Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will be the next President of this country and one of us will become the governor in Ekiti State. I am happy that the new executives have passion for this group and this will lead to action and eventually victory for all of us.
“APC leaders and members across board are using their
personal money to fund SWAGA. Members are not after money. Let me tell you
this, 16 governors are now backing Tinubu for president and they are no longer
afraid after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State openly supported us
when we did the flag-off in Lagos”.
Speaking about the strength of SWAGA in Ekiti, which he
described as strong and intimidating in terms of membership, Adeyeye added: “We
leant that they wanted to come and disrupt this swearing-in today, but I said
they can’t. Governor Fayemi wanted to conduct election into the House of
Assembly in Ekiti East constituency one, they killed three people.
“That was how weak and debased our party is now. The current
government can’t bring out a governorship candidate in APC and win in 2022.
They have been rejected and SWAGA is coming to save the party from ruin”.
On the new parallel executives inaugurated by SWAGA, the
former Minister said: “Those that were inaugurated today are the authentic APC
executives in Ekiti. The party at the national level brought out a guideline
that people should come out and queue to vote for the ward and local government
congresses, but the people didn’t come out. They were inside a room concocting
names under the guise of consensus.
“But SWAGA members filed out. We have the video clip that we
will present. What they did on Saturday, October 16 was a nullity and a
complete waste of time. We knew what we did for Fayemi to win in 2018, he
couldn’t have won on his own, because he has no popularity.
“I know that they can’t buy you with money, you are for
SWAGA. This government has finished, don’t let them deceive you with positions.
Only the Fayemi’s Tokantokan group are enjoying the dividends of what we did,
others are sidelined. It is now ‘chop alone, die alone.’
“Even many of those with appointments are aggrieved, many
will shock them during the governorship primary, we are now using direct
primary. They can no longer sleep because the party now wants direct primary,
owing to the fact that they are not popular”, Adeyeye said.
The SWAGA State Coordinator, Prince Bamigboye Adegoroye,
commended members for mobilising for the party despite alleged threats from
some people, saying the group has become a powerful force to be reckoned with
in APC.
“By the grace of God, all our struggles will end in
happiness. This is the time for political struggle. Some of you acted like
brave men today, if not, you won’t have been able to attend this occasion”.
The group’s Chairman, Ikere- Council, Lanre Adekungba, said
they had worked for the party in the past, but without profit, saying SWAGA
will be a departure from such harrowing experiences.
“We are using our personal funds to maintain this group,
which shows that we are resolute. We will deliver the party in the primary. How
many people remain with them, the remnants, we will bring them to this group”.
The group’s Woman Leader in Efon Local Government, Mrs
Eunice Adeoye, said the executives should be more diligent and aggressive in
mobilising for the group, to be able to produce governorship candidate for the
2022 governorship election.
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