The visit to the Ibadan home of Adesoji Akanbi, who represented Oyo south senatorial district between 2015 and 2019, by governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oyo State, is the beginning of peace in the party.
Akanbi, who spoke in an exclusive interview with OYOINSIGHT.COM, said if he had not wanted reconciliation, he would not have allowed the three-term senator representing Oyo central into his house.
This was just as the former house of representatives’ member who is the Okanlomo of Ibadan denied insinuation that he was working for the re-election of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde.
According to Akanbi, who chairs the strategy and policy committee of the Tinubu/Shettima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council, “That I accepted to play host to Sen. Teslim Folarin in my house means reconciliation has started. It is the beginning of reconciliation. You know it doesn’t happen in a day, it is a gradual process. I am a stakeholder in APC. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is our project and APC is our platform. And like Senator Folarin said during the visit, we should work to ensure we will win the first election with a very wide margin and this requires us all to work together in unison. Before Sen. Folarin’s coming, we have been on it for many months. At least, we have started something and I hope it works.
”To those saying I am working for Governor ‘Seyi Makinde’s re-election. That, I want to say, is a lie. I have always been a progressive all my life. For this 2023 elections, Governor ‘Seyi Makinde never approached to seek my support and since I am not a father Xmas, I can’t support someone who never approached me for such. So the visit of Sen. Foalrin to my house is the begging of something. We will continue to talk,” the founder of the Coalition Movement for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, COMBAT, explained.
OYOINSIGHT.COM had reported how Folarin met Akanbi over the weekend where the duo were said to have settled their differences and agreed to work together with a view to achieving electoral victories for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other APC candidates on February 25th and March 11th general elections.
