Ekiti PDP lambasts APC over attack on Adeboye

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the statement credited to the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Mr Jide Awe, disparaging the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, as a height of political rascality.

According to the PDP, the disowning of the statement is a mere afterthought by the APC.

The PDP noted that Pastor Adeboye commending the state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, for his courage and willingness to defend his people and the cause of the common man in the country was a statement of fact.

Spokesperson of the party in the state, Mr Jackson Adebayo, in a statement on Monday, said: “It is the height of crude politics for the APC to insinuate that a man of God of Pastor Adeboye’s standing took bribe to commend Governor Fayose, for what is obvious.

“Pastor Adeboye is a respected man of God. He is not a politician. He only said what he saw about Governor Fayose and the only Nigerians, who won’t want to accept the fact that the governor has stoutly defended Ekiti people and the common people of Nigeria, are those in the APC.”

Adebayo, who described the rebuttal, issued late on Sunday, by the APC publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, as an afterthought, claimed that, “The APC in Ekiti State has a strong history of political intolerance such that anyone not with them must be condemned at all cost.

“Not minding that Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, is a leader of the party, the APC in Ekiti State reacted violently and disrespectfully to his visit to Governor Fayose in Ado Ekiti, calling him (Aregbesola) all kind of names.

“If they could attack Governor Aregbesola, one of the party leaders for coming to visit Governor Fayose in Ekiti and describing the governor as an ‘omoluabi’ and a performer, why won’t they attack Pastor Adeboye who does not belong to their party?

“If Jide Awe could lead over 50 members of his party to protest against a highly respected Ekiti leader like Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) in far away Ibadan, Oyo State just because he was perceived as not supporting their party candidate in 2007, mere issuing a press release to abuse Pastor Adeboye is the least of what can be expected from the APC under Jide Awe.”