The Ogun State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned the embattled candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ladi Adebutu, against further dropping of President Bola Tinubu’s name while sorrowing over the vote-buying and money laundering allegations against him in the March 18 governorship election conducted in the state.
The party advised the PDP governorship candidate to “face the subsisting criminal charges against him and “stop dropping President Bola Tinubu’s name,” stressing that the President will never provide cover for criminality by anyone no matter how rich or solicitous.
Adebutu, who recently returned to Nigeria after over eight months of “medical vacation” abroad, was quoted to have said at a New Year party that “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu belongs to us all. Nobody can claim the Presidency, it belongs to all Nigerians. Stop harassing us, we are all Tinubu’s children.”
However, the state chapter of the APC in a statement in Abeokuta yesterday and signed by its Publicity Secretary, Tunde Oladunjoye, advised Adebutu to “stop evading court papers and answer the criminal charges against him rather than resort to vaingloriously patronising President Bola Tinubu.”
