Indications emerged over the weekend that factional spokespersons of
the All Progressive Congress (APC), in Ekiti, Chief Taiwo Olatunbosun
and Mr. Segun Dipe of the Action Group APC (AG-APC), are accusing
each other of usurpation of roles.
Olatunbosun, who is said to be lobbying for the party’s National
Publicity Secretary post, accused his counterpart from the AG-APC
faction of going too far, saying “he may call himself the party’s
spokesman, but not wherever I’m standing as the recognized
spokesperson of the party in Ekiti.”
Olatunbosun was said to have been angered by the statement issued by
Segun Dipe, condemning a revamped, Senator Gbenga Aluko, who declared
his governorship ambition last week.
Sources within the party disclosed that while Olatunbosun is working
for the emergence of the APC Deputy National Chairman (South), Asiwaju
Segun Oni as the party’s flag bearer in 2018, Dipe is working for the
emergence of Senator Babafemi Ojudu and he (Dipe) was being positioned
to become the State Publicity Secretary in the event of the
dissolution of the State Exco of the party and appointment of
caretaker committee.
Ojumu is said to be lobbying Abuja for the dissolution of the Jide Awe
led State Exco of the APC, arguing that Awe, who is standing trial for
murder has been unable to function as the State Chairman.
Angry Olatunbosun was said to have equated the intellectual capacity
of Mr. Dipe to that of a toddler who has just started crawling with a
blank memory.
Reacting to Segun Dipe’s claim as the substantive party’s spokesperson
and challenging his (Olatunbosun) effrontery to have spoken for the
party against Senator Gbenga Aluko, Olatunbosun said he would have no
choice than to fire back.
Olatunbosun was said to have confided in an associate from Are-Ekiti,
that he will facilitate the collapse of the Action Group faction of
the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state if Dipe continue
insulting his person. That, once he become the party’s national
spokesperson or state chairman, the process of eradicating factions in
the party shall top his agenda.
It was however learnt that Mr. Segun Dipe has cautioned the
controversial party’s spokesperson, Hon. Taiwo Olatunbosun, to stop
castigating his (Dipe) activities in the media, saying the plot to
bring him down shall never succeed.
Segun Dipe further entrenched the fact that the unlawful activities of
Taiwo Olatunbosun, all in the name of acting in spokesperson capacity
of the APC, have spelled doom for the party in the state.
He added that, Olatunbosun, who was alleged of raping last year, has
no moral right parading himself as party’s spokesperson in a decent
environment, or glowing in anticipation of becoming the party’s state
chairman or National Publicity Secretary.
The duo, who silently claimed superiority over each other on issues of
national interest recently, have allegedly accused each other of
fanning embers among party members in the state.
“Olatunbosun is a spokesperson with questionable and controversial
character. It is of no need telling you all you already knew about him
since his eleventh hour defection into the APC in 2014.
“I’m only surprised seeing him galvanising efforts to become the
party’s national publicity secretary. On what ground and what actually
gave him the gut, if only I may ask?
“I know Olatunbosun does not have what it takes to even be state
publicity secretary let alone eyeing the national,” Segun Dipe said.
He advised Olatunbosun to take things easy and be less ambitious,
saying the forthcoming party’s congress shall determine his fate and
that of his kind who value personal gain than party’s progress.
