Osun APC hails Oyetola, slams PDP for demanding sack
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Osun State chapter has commended the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, for adding substantial value to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
This comes after Oyetola’s ministry generated N242.8 billion in the first quarter of this year, APC described the achievement as a testament to his resourceful management of men and resources.
The APC’s commendation is in response to the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s call for Oyetola’s sack, which the APC described as baseless and without any justifiable reason.
The PDP’s chairman, Sunday Bisi, had alleged poor performance, but the APC says this is a clear indication of the PDP’s ignorance and lack of understanding.
In his reaction, the state chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, on the weekend, stated that Sunday Bisi’s call for the sack of the Marine and Blue Economy Minister is baseless.
Lawal also highlighted Oyetola’s success in restoring sanity to the Tin Can Island Port corridor, ending the perennial traffic gridlock on the Mile 2 and Tin Can in Lagos.
Lawal said that despite the newness of his ministry, Oyetola forge ahead to the admiration of the right-thinking members of the society and not those who are thinking otherwise.
In Lawal’s words: “If the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, who masterminded the finalisation of the Funtua Inland Dry Port which was commissioned on May 9th, 2024, should be sacked as cruelly and stupidly being canvassed by Sunday Bisi, what should then happen to a governor who could not account for N300 billion Federal Government funds in his care for the people of the state since the inauguration of the inglorious administration of the ruling government in the state?
“If Alhaji Oyetola who commissioned a 4.8 km of road at Onne Port and Mooring Boats should be relieved of his appointment as it is the wish of Sunday Bisi and his cohorts, what then should be done to a state governor who is finding it pretty difficult to either read or recite the newly-adopted National Anthem?
“If Sunday Bisi and his co-travellers are knowledgeable enough about the running of the Federal Government, it would not be difficult for them to know that the rehabilitation of some access roads in Tin Can and Apapa ports were effected under Oyetola.
“Our brothers and sisters in the apparently confused PDP should learn that Oyetola as the hardworking Minister of Marine and Blue Economy has injected and restored sanity to Tin Can Island Port corridor as the perennial traffic gridlock on the Mile 2 and Tin Can in Lagos has since given way, thus putting an end to the multi-billion-naira yearly loss to Lagos Ports’ traffic gridlock, which defied all solutions for close to one decade.
“Thank God that it is he who hires that can fire. It is unfortunate that Sunday Bisi and his cohorts cannot see the exemplary and superlative achievements of Alhaji Oyetola in the ministry of Marine and Blue Economy where he is the maiden Minister because they are bereft of pathological ingredients of understanding.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu knows the inherent knowledge possessed by former Governor Oyetola which have been seeing him through without hitches in the new ministry which have been the sources of addition of his inestimable value to the ruling government at the centre.
“So the Osun State PDP chairman’s call for Oyetola’s sack is balderdash, humbug, flapdoodle and can neither fly nor sit,” he added
