Oyo APC Rejects Nomination Of Adebayo Shittu As Minister

The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress [APC] has grumbled to President Muhammadu Buhari over what they considered “Marginalisation of Oyo State in Political Appointments”.


This was contained in a letter jointly signed by Chief Akin Oke, State Party Chairman and Hon. Mojeed Olaoya, the State Secretary, addressed to President Buhari.
In the letter, the State APC expressed surprise that their performance has not been commensurately rewarded at the national level, albeit that “Oyo State performed creditably in terms of contribution of votes to the overall success of our party.” 

The petitioners also lamented that “the current power matrix shows that the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives hails from Osun State while the recently appointed Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue is a Lagosian.  
“Both in the Senate and the House of Representatives, no lawmaker from Oyo State heads any of the committees that had so far been constituted. In fact not even any of the visible party positions nationally despite the fact that Oyo State is the political capital of the South West.
The petition ended with the state party, thereby, urging Buhari “to reconsider his nomination in the overall interest of the party and its likely implication for future elections so that the good people of Oyo State are not made to believe that the party is compensating a quisling while you are an apostle of party supremacy.