Lagos APC to punish organising secretary, Adewale, over missing bullion van comment
The Lagos state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday said it will mete out appropriate sanction on its Lagos State Organising Secretary, over his statement on the two bullion vans driving into the residence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu hours before the 2019 presidential election.
Adewale, in an interview on Arise TV had said that the bullion vans were going to another location but missed their way to Tinubu’s Bourdillon home.
“On the bullion van or no bullion van and all of that, I think that matter has been put to rest. There was no money in the bullion van. The bullion vans that even came missed their way to have come there.”
“I was in that house on that very day and it was not on an election day. The bullion vans missed their way to have come there,” he said.
Speaking with DAILY INDEPENDENT, a senior official of the party who spoke on condition of anonymity said Adewale only expressed his personal opinion and not that of the party.
He further said Adewale, a former chairman of Amuwo-Odofin Local Government will be sanctioned for granting the interview when he was not authorised to do so as it was not his jurisdiction.
“The Lagos APC never asked him to represent us at any interview. He only went there to embarrass himself and not our party. Everything he said during the interview were his personal opinion. He neither spoke for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu nor for the party”.
“Asiwaju Tinubu had already addressed the issue of the bullion vans and that settles it. Adewale is not his media aide or the spokesman of the party. He just wanted to be in the spotlight and for the wrong reasons”.
“I’m certain disciplinary action will be taken against him because there is a directive from the leadership of the party to avoid granting interviews to Arise TV due to their hostile attitude to our presidential candidate. Adewale wilfully ignored that directives and he will pay for it. I think he just made the greatest mistake of his political life” he said.
