21, that the South West All Progressives
Congress governors who were absent at the
Saturday APC Mega Gubernatorial rally in
Akure, Ondo, had sent in their apologies and
given cogent reasons for their absence.
Ex-governor of Lagos state was notably
absent, as President Buhari led the APC to a
grand rally in Ondo state.
He said that the national leader of the party,
Tinubu, was not at the rally due to ill-health.
Lalong, who is the Chairman of Ondo APC
Governorship Campaign Council, made this
known to State House correspondents after
a closed door meeting with President
Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa,
Abuja.
The Akure APC rally, which was witnessed
by President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate
President Bukola Saraki, and other prominent
members of the party , was attended by only
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun from the
South West.
The APC governors from Imo, Kano, Kogi,
Jigawa, Nasarawa and Edo states attended
the rally.
The governors of Lagos, Oyo and Osun
states, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, Sen. Abiola
Ajimobi and Mr. Rauf Aregbosola
respectively, as well as former governor of
Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, were also
absent at the event.
According to The Punch, Governor Lalong,
who was accompanied by the Minister of
Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode
Fayemi, however, explained that all the
prominent APC personalities who failed to
attend the rally had offered useful and
convincing explanations.
Tinubu, was not at the rally due to ill-health.
He said: “We explained their absence. They
sent in their apologies. You heard what
happened there.
“As far as we are concerned, the President,
who is the leader of the party, was at the rally.
The national chairman was also there, as far
as we are concerned, everybody was there.
“If a leader was not there and he said he was
not there because of ill-health, we prayed that
God will heal him.”
Lalong said he was in the Villa to thank the
President for attending the Ondo rally.
He said: “We have come to thank the
President for going to Ondo for the grand
finale rally.’’
Tinubu, who is being addressed as National
leader of the APC, had opposed the
emergence of Rotimi Akeredolu as APC
governorship candidate in Ondo.
He, therefore, demanded the resignation of
the national chairman of the party, Chief
John Odigie-Oyegun, whom he said had
derailed from the path of progressives.
Odigie-Oyegun, however, dismissed the call,
saying the party’s primary election was free
and fair.Now let the ball start rolling
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