Ex-Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State, Bashir Bolarinwa, has denied knowledge of N800 million allegedly handed over to the party by the then national chairman of the party, for the prosecution of the 2019 governorship election.
Senator Oshiomhole recently claimed that the party expended over N4 billion to win the Kwara, Imo and Ogun states governorship elections in 2019.
Reacting to the allegation in a statement issued in Ilorin on Thursday, Bolarinwa said, “I am saying this as the state chairman of APC that led the ‘otoge’ movement in 2019 that I am not aware of the money.
“Though APC’s victory in the election was one of the major achievements of the then Adams Oshiomhole-led national APC, but I was and still not aware of any N800 million given to the party in the state.
“I am not saying that Senator Oshiomhole does not know what he is saying, but I am sure he would know the person he handed over the money to and where the money was collected”, he queried.
He added, “it is disturbing that after the electoral victory of the APC in Kwara State, most of the people that worked for the success of the party were sidelined and abandoned during the period.
“Even, all the efforts made to the national secretariat of the party under the caretaker chairman of the party under Governor Buni to enable him intervene were rebuffed because the caretaker chairman and his cohorts had made up their mind not to support Bola Ahmed Tinubu for anything but we thank God today.
“It is unfortunate that the crisis created has continued to linger”, he said
The former member of the House of Representatives however appealed to Nigerians to be patient with President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
“I served under Tinubu when he became governor of Lagos State in 1999.
“Initially, that time too, things were tough as he was trying to put things right.
“Later on things picked up and became better and Lagos is still enjoying it till today by the grace of God Nigerians will soon be laughing.”
