By Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun has broken silence over the degrading comments made on his person by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu, a presidential hopeful, who was in Ogun on Thursday to meet APC delegates, had thrown a jab at Abiodun, saying the latter would not have emerged as governor without his support.
“That one (referring to Abiodun) that is sitting down here, can he say he can become the governor without me? We were all in the stadium where they tore all the posters. Even the candidacy of the party, they didn’t want to give it to him,” he told the gathering in Yoruba.
“If he wants to meet God at the right place, he must know that without God and me, he would not have become Governor.”
However, in what may be considered a response to the APC chieftain, the governor said he is not an emperor and the office he holds isn’t his family inheritance.
In an Instagram post on Friday, he wrote, “I am not an emperor by any chance and this is not my family inheritance.
“I am holding this position in trust for all the people of this state and I have vowed to be fair, just and equitable and this is the solemn agreement I made between the Almighty God and myself.”
The face-off between Tinubu and the Ogun State governor is said to be linked to the latter’s endorsement of the candidature of Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo who is also a presidential aspirant under the APC. Tinubu was apparently dissatisfied with the move, hence his public dragging of Abiodun.
