A release issued on Sunday by the Chairman, Oyo South Senatorial District of the defunct
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Bello Adeleke Oladeji, stated that the senator representing the district at the National Assembly, Femi Lanlehin has been warned not to be used to play a spoiler’s role with a view to disintegrating the party.
Alhaji Oladeji also alleged that the Senator was on his way out of the party for the Accord Party.
According to the District Chairman, it was uncharitable for Senator Lanlehin to assume the role of the mouthpiece of the district and the state party as a whole when no one had given him any such role.
“The Senatorial zone Lanlehin hails from has endorsed the second term bid of the governor. We wonder where Lanlehin was when the party made this endorsement which was widely applauded by all our party members. To allege that the governor induced us to do this is the height of anti-party activity and an attempt to play the spoiler’s role, with the aim of destabilizing our party,” Alhaji Oladeji said.
The party district Chairman, who warned Senator Lanlehin to leave for his Accord Party without setting the party on a collision course with itself, said that the party in the district endorsed Governor Ajimobi for a second term because of the illustrious and gallant roles he had performed in the lives of the people of the state and the party as a whole.
Alleging that Senator Lanlehin had perfected plans to defect to the Accord Party, the Chairman said that the party in the senatorial district wished him well but was of the opinion that the Senator would meet his political waterloo in the party he was heading for.
“As he has always done by changing political parties like a prostitute changes partner, Senator Lanlehin is on his way to the Accord Party. If you read his responses to questions he was asked by his interviewer, it was as if former governor Rashidi Ladoja was speaking. It was the same cadence and the same warped mind-set aimed at trivializing the monumental developmental strides of the governor. It is the mindset of the enemies of progress and those who wanted Oyo State to remain in its static and low level state,” the Chairman said.
Alhaji Oladeji also said that the Senator was barely representing the Senatorial district at the National Assembly as he was consumed by his destructive bid to unseat the incumbent governor of Oyo State.
“His participation at the Senate is almost nil, as we hardly hear him participate in debates, make any representation at the National Assembly or even feel his presence at his Senatorial district. We would not be surprised if he is listed as one of the Senators who have initiated zero bills in the last two years or so. While Senator Ajimobi was at the Senate, he performed so creditably that the senatorial district did not have any constraint in nominating him to vie for the governorship of the state,” the chairman said.