Son of late leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Oyo State and state commissioner for youth and sports, Mr. Dapo Lam-Adesina, has warned aggrieved members of the party in the state not to use the name of his late dad for political and divisive means.
He made this known at a press conference he addressed in Ibadan on Wednesday, in reply to a group going by the name Reformation Group which, in an advertorial in a national daily, claimed that the late former governor transmitted a letter to it from the dead.
The commissioner said that the letter must have been written by one of the aggrieved members of the party as a dead person could not have written from heaven.
He, however, assured members of the ruling ACN in the state that the crisis rocking the party would soon be resolved as decisions reached at the last reconciliatory meeting involving all the stakeholders with Governor Ajimobi would be implemented by the governor.
Mr. Lam-Adesina described his late father as “an easy going person, a progressive to the core and man of peace’’, adding that the late former governor truly believed and pursued the ideals of the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
“I want to believe that the publication must have emanated from some quarters or aggrieved members of our great party or from those who believe they can use that to strike us. I believe that as a progressive family, and as those who believe in the tenets of progressivism, we are going to resolve our problems.
“I want to clarify that the family of the late Alhaji Lam Adesina does not want to be involved or mentioned or named in anything that is going on politically. There was no time he was mentioned in any violence or any crisis when he was alive.
“He always told us that we must always settle our differences at every point in time; that we must never
fan the embers of discord. For us to allow our father to rest in peace, we must never allow disunity among our party members,’’ the commissioner said.
The commissioner commended Governor Ajimobi for all his developmental efforts, stating that this was what the party and all its members should build on and not engage in distraction of the efforts of the government.