Daniel Didn’t Support Tinubu, Abiodun during Election, Says APC

James Sowole in Abeokuta

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Ogun State Chapter, yesterday described former Governor Gbenga Daniel latest interview in the media as   “drama of absurdity and cocktails of lies.”

Daniel, who presently represents Ogun East Senatorial District at the Senate, granted media interview where he alleged that Abiodun is still in dagger drawn with him for supporting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the APC’s presidential primaries in 2022 among other allegations.

Reacting to Daniel’s interview yesterday, the Assistant Publicity Secretary of APC in the State, Mr. Olusola Ogunsanya, stressed that the said interview was an embodiment of falsehood and blatant lies.

Ogunsanya said that at no time did Daniel make a definite position to support the president, as it accused him of double standards and pecuniary tendencies.

The statement further alleged that Daniel supported the PDP and its candidates during the last general election in Ogun State and worked against his APC. 

It claimed the party and Abiodun rescued Daniel at the point of his political oblivion, saying the former Governor, had displayed an act of ingratitude by his action.

The statement said: “There is no record of Daniel’s role in Tinubu’s emergence as governor in Lagos State in 1999. In 2003, he contested under PDP and not AD, so what structure was he talking about?

“He ruled for eight years as a PDP governor before Ibikunle Amosun dislodged him and declared him persona non grata in the state, confining him to oblivion and castrating his businesses.”