According to Kunle Oyatomi, the publicity secretary of the APC in state said at no time did any of the governors in the south-west region unilaterally submit names of nominees for Ministerial appointments.
“It is important to correct a lingering falsehood of a difference between our National Leader and the Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on the issue of Ministerial Nominees for the State of Osun. For the avoidance of doubt, Ministerial Nomination and submission of same, if it ever occurred, was the sole responsibility of our National Leader.
“At no time did any of our Governors in our region unilaterally submit names of nominees for Ministerial appointments. The question of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola unilaterally submitting the name of anybody for ministerial appointment against the submission made, if any, by the leadership of our party in the South West is not only false but grossly mischievous,” he said.
The APC chieftain equally dismisses the report by Sun newspaper of the plot by Tinubu and Saraki to oppose President Buhari.
Daily Sun had reported on Saturday, October 10, that security agencies have launched a surveillance ring around the leader of the ruling APC, Tinubu and others, including some members of the National Assembly, over an alleged plot against President Buhari.
But responding to the newspaper report after Tinubu had also issued a statement dismissing the report, Sarki said he does not see any basis for the newspaper report.
Oyatomi said: “We do not find any link between the reckless screaming headline, the purported plot against President Buhari and the basis for being under Security Watch.
“While not confirming the insinuation peddled by this report of our National Leader romancing with the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki; there cannot be a crime should that happen more so, when the two of them are members of the same party.
“It is laughable and at the same time worrisome to the extreme with the desperation of the insurgents and the threat they pose to our national stability and the welfare of our citizens for anyone to suggest that our security agencies are not sufficiently occupied enough to be on the trail of a Leader of our party that put everything, including his life, into the formation of our party, emergence of the Presidential Candidate and the ultimate victory at the poll,” he stressed.
