A former member of the House of Representatives and Director General of the Senator Iyiola Omisore Governorship Campaign in 2018, Hon. Bade Falade has declared that President Bola Tinubu is a treasured progressive leader in Osun State whose contribution is eternally acknowledged by young and old.

This is a reaction to the alleged mischief being propagated by the PDP government in Osun to wedge a disharmony between the state APC and the national leadership of the party. 

Falade described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the compass of the progressive family in Osun State and Nigeria in whom they are all pleased. 

This is even as the former federal lawmaker berated Governor Ademola Adeleke of secret attempt to foist himself into the party to avoid the imminent defeat awaiting him at the poll in 2026.

Falade spoke in Osogbo while playing a host to members of Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji Media Fronts, a directorate promoting the actualization of Oyebamiji's gubernatorial ambition. 

AMBO Media Fronts' representatives, led by Adebayo Adedeji, Kehinde Ayantunji and Funsho Fagbohungbe, were on a Sallah visit to the former federal lawmaker. 

Falade said: "my experience with the Adelekes in the PDP and some of us they drove away from the party is unpalatable. Big politicians like Senator Iyiola Omisore, Rt Hon. Adejare Bello, Chief Shuaib Oyedokun, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, Omooba Dotun Babayemi have bitter experiences to share about them. They have a penchant for gatecrashing into a political party, hijack the structure and send other stakeholders away."

Also responding to an insinuation making the round that leading APC gubernatorial aspirant, Bola Oyebamiji delegated his supporters to insult President Tinubu over the recent visit of Governor Ademola Adeleke to Tinubu's residence, the Ejigbo-born former Chairman of Governing Council, Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, said on no account would Oyebamiji, notable for his Omoluabi values and respectful mien, would prod his campaigners to bring the name of the national leader of the party to disrepute.

According to him, "ascribing such denigrading statement to humility personified like Oyebamiji is a dirty politics taken to far.  

"President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the treasure of APC in Osun and Nigeria at large. So, who dares abuse him? Who dares denigrade him? Who dares degrade him? Who dares insult him? Who dares undermine him? This is far from commonsense. There is a saying that who doesn't want a pregnancy aborted can never pray for such child to die. Tinubu is our own investment. Tinubu is an investment of APC in Osun. We invested our votes in 2023 to make him President and there is no way anyone will degrade him. If anyone should abuse Tinubu or degrade him or debase him or say anything that can tarnish his image, such person can not be in this party. It is the figment of imagination of the mischief makers running around with the falsehood.

"So when I heard that Oyebamiji allegedly denigrated President Tinubu, I said that it is politics taken to far. When there is grouse, it is better to resolve it amicably rather than spewing lies and propaganda against a revered member of the party. Oyebamiji has no reason to insult Tinubu. Oyebamiji has never abused Tinubu and he will never abuse him. We know him very well and we know he can't do such a thing. He is indeed a man of character, integrity, dignity, humility, calmness and honesty.

"It is even ridiculous to believe such because there is no reason for it. Is it Oyebamiji that is an appointee of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is currently serving at an agency under the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, that's, National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, that would degrade his principal? This is untrue and pure lies. Bola Oyebamiji that I know, is an easy going person that is not even desperate and inordinate about his ambition to become Governor. Honestly it is the people that are encouraging him to contest having seen profound impacts he made in previous offices held. For your information, Bola Oyebamiji remains person to beat in the next governorship election, perhaps that is why desperate politicians are bent on destroying his name", he added. 

Speaking in turns, the leadership of AMBO Media Fronts, Mr. Adebayo Adedeji, Comrade Kehinde Ayantunji and Mr. Funsho Fagbohungbe extolled Hon. Falade for standing firm for what is right and just.

Similarly, in a separate visit of AMBO Media Fronts to erstwhile federal lawmaker, Hon. Yinka Ajayi in Osogbo, the former Chairman House Committee on Aids, Loan and Debt Managenent, lauded Oyebamiji's contribution to financial re-engineering of Osun state while serving as Commissioner for Finance, assuring that his governorship would direct the state on a path of financial stability and wealth creation.

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