There is uncertainty in the Akoko southwest local government chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state as the party’s local government chairman, Mr. Sehinde Mise has disowned a letter written and signed in his name, communicating the suspension of certain leaders and members of the party to the state chairman, over alleged anti-party activities.
Sehinde Mise, in a telephone conversation obtained by Nigerian Cable News online, also said he was neither consulted nor informed, before the list of Twenty-eight (28) stakeholders was drawn.
Some persons constituting a minority caucus of the party within akoko southwest local government, reportedly led by a former commissioner and son of late former governor, Mr. Adegboyega Adefarati, had on saturday circulated and suspension letter addressed to the state party chairman, Mr. Ade Adetimehin, over allegations of anti-party activities.
According to the letter, an independent fact-finding committee porportedly acted on some complain letters to draw the conclusion on the suspension of the 28 leaders and stakeholders.
However, the local government chairman, Mr. Sehinde Mise discredited the claims, saying there was no local government executive meeting where any matter relating to the suspension of anybody in akoko southwest APC was deliberated or agreed upon. He frowned at the use of his name for a fake action without anyone speaking with him.
He said:
“This (suspension) is unacceptable to me. they didn’t discuss anything with me, we didn’t meet to deliberate on anything, they just decided to attach my name to their fraud. They have been trying to call me for more then 20 times, after they did what they did, but I have refused to pick their calls.”
“What kind of nonsense is all these…they didn’t consult me about anything, they just attached my name to a letter and started spreading it across the social media. infact, I’m not happy with Adefarati, and I can never forgive him for this that he has done. I’m not ready to talk to him because he has destroyed my name and wants to kill me. I was so shocked to have been receiving calls from across the country and abroad over this matter, and I don’t even know anything about it.”
“it’s unfortunate that Adefarati is displaying this level of inexperience and naivety. I have been here (in Lagos) for the past three weeks, nobody called to tell me they are planning to do anything in my name. I’m not ready to join them in legitimizing their fraud. It is wrong and sinful.” He added.
He also said he has written a memo to the state chairman, through Mr. Cyril Aye to dissociate himself from the ruse, while adding that what the party needs is reconciliation and not further bickering.
He further said he is staying away from Ondo State for now, for his own safety, while describing Adefarati as rude and power drunk.
On the purported complaint letters from the wards, the APC chairmen of wards 14 & 15 in akoko southwest local government, Comrade Abimbola Olugbenga and Alhaji Musa Olisa, who spoke separately with Nigerian Cable News online, said they didn’t receive any complain letter from anyone, and were not invited for any meeting to discuss suspension. They also said they got the news from social media platforms like every other person, and that there was no petition, and no trial of any member of their wards for antiparty activities in recent time.
