A notable leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo State, Alhaji AbdulRasheed Adebisi, has revealed that his meeting with the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was out of love for the former Lagos governor.
The photo of Olopoenia and that of Tinubu had surfaced on the internet yesterday.
OYOINSIGHT.COM understands Olopoeyan, as the politician is popularly called, is not having it good with Governor Seyi Makinde. Olopoeyan, who had accused Makinde of neglect, was one of the popular names around the governor before and during the 2019 elections.
But in a chat with OYOINSIGHT.COM late Monday night, Olopoeyan, explained that meeting Tinubu doesn’t mean he has left his PDP for the APC.
”It was Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who invited me to come see him. He said he has heard a lot about me and would love us to work together. He said he would like me to join Oyo APC. Respectfully, I told him that I am in PDP and that I cannot join the APC. I, however, told him that I love him. He said he loves people like me too.
”I remember that late former governor Abiola Ajimobi extended similar gesture to me in 2012. Thank God Alhaji Fatai Ibikunle, who was late Ajimobi’s political adviser as at then is still alive. He was at the meeting. Former governor Abiola Ajimobi asked me to come over to the APC and that he would give me more than what his predecessor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala was doing for me. I rejected it respectfully. And we related till he died last year. That is me.
“It is true that I met Asiwaju. I am happy I know him. I am happy I met someone I love. I love him personally without anything attached. But I am in PDP. I have not joined APC.”
Quizzed about his frosty relationship with Makinde, he laughed, saying “We are not fighting. I am in PDP. The last we spoke was September 2020.”
