Kogi Guber: APC group knocks Smart Adeyemi over ‘No primary’ claims »

….calls for his immediate expulsion from party

A group, Ijumu APC Progressive Minds has knocked Senator Smart Adeyemi over his alleged claim that the party did not hold the April 14th gubernatorial primary elections in his Local Government, describing his claim as glaring misinformation and blatant falsehood.

The group who addressed the Press at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Press Center in Lokoja also called for the immediate expulsion of Senator Adeyemi by the APC in Ijumu Local Government Area noting that he has become cancerous to the party.

The APC Stalwart and President, Ijumu APC Progressive Minds Mr. Kamaldeen Toyin who addressed the Press on behalf of the group said ‘’As a people, we are not surprised that Senator Smart Adeyemi is attacking Governor Yahaya Bello today. It is his character to repay good with evil. He has made every of his helper regret their benevolence’’.

He narrated that after his ill-fated failure in the 2015 election where he was washed away by the Buhari hurricane, it was the Governor that rehabilitated Smart Adeyemi and brought his political career back to life. “We warned the Governor then about our son that he is a snake, that no matter how good you are to him, he will bite you. That is exactly what Senator Smart Adeyemi is doing now”, he pointed out.

Mr. Kamaldeen attested that Friday’s APC Governorship Primary was the fairest and the freest ever while he commended Governor Ballo Matawalle and his team for the standard process noting that the process was devoid of rancour and violence as the financial members of the party expressed their power and right to nominate the candidate of their choice.

He said ‘Smart Adeyemi’s desperate attempt to fault the process was borne out of his desperation to work with certain elements whose satanic agenda is to ensure our dear party is unable to present a candidate for the November 11 Governorship Poll in the state. With the successful conduct of the Governorship primary, their aim has been declared offside and defeated’.

The group’s president mentioned that as witnessed in all the parts of the state, financial members came out massively in Ijumu to vote according to the dictates of their conscience. Smart Adeyemi, despite being from Ijuma Local Government Area, lost woefully to Ahmed Usman Ododo adding that such outcome was a referendum on his woeful a third term Senator.

‘’We wish to call on the leadership of our party to investigate how non-members of the APC were hurriedly given membership cards strongly suspected to be fake. They could give fake cards, but they couldn’t fabricate payment of dues for them. It is therefore ludicrous to display wanton desperation and falsehood that the process was faulty.

Before the primary, Sen. Smart Adeyemi’s only joker was ethnicity. He claimed to be fighting for “justice and fairness”. He didn’t remember justice and fairness when in 2015, after spending two terms in the Senate, he refused to allow the seat rotate to yagba’’ he alluded

Mr. Kamaldeen recalled that Smart Adeyemi fraudulently and violently seized the ticket of the PDP, only for Sen. Dino Melaye to fly on the wings of the Buhari Tsunami to defeat him. In 2019, he was able to win the support of the Governor who rallied support for him to win the ticket of the party. In 2023, he wanted to go for his 4th Term, when Yagba Federal Constituency had not produced a Senator. To him, such was “just and fair”. To Smart Adeyemi, it can only be considered fair when he wins. Loss means injustice to him.

As members of the party in Ijumu Local Government Area, we commend the Governor for allowing a level Playground for all the contestants. That process Has Produced the best candidate and we are Confident of victory in November, the President noted.