2022: SWAGA Will Save APC from Embarrassing Defeat, Says Adeyeye

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti
A former Minister of Works and National Chairman, Southwest Agenda for Tinubu 2023 presidential ambition (SWAGA), Senator Dayo Adeyeye, has said the group has started aggressive mobilisation of voters across the state to save the All Progressives Congress from imminent defeat in the 2022 governorship election.

Adeyeye said the current APC government of Governor Kayode Fayemi, has disappointed the people, describing SWAGA as the only saving grace for the party, by commanding the respect of aggrieved party members and the public.
Adeyeye spoke in Ado Ekiti on Saturday while addressing APC members at the conclusion of the mobilisation efforts of the group across the 16 local government areas of the state.

The former Minister expressed regrets that the APC in Ekiti has lost popularity despite being the ruling party owing to alleged politics of hatred and alienation being played by those loyal to Fayemi.

Adeyeye said: “SWAGA is now a movement that has taken over Ekiti. If they conduct any primary for governorship in Ekiti and presidency today, SWAGA Will win. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that we are promoting is a man, who doesn’t forget his people unlike betrayers that we have here. So, SWAGA is the right way to tread.
“They said it is direct primary, that makes us happy. They won’t be able to rig anything. The executives loyal to Governor Fayemi are fake; we are the authentic ones that conducted the ward, local government and state congresses in line with the guidelines of our party, others were imposed.

“Let us begin the grassroots politicking. Don’t be afraid of anybody, this government has got to its twilight. Don’t be deceived by their antics. Nothing good is coming from them again.

“Instead of going out to cancass for votes, they are doing their permutations on laptop computers. That has always been their idea. But we are on the streets now working, because we know the value of our people.”

Also, reacting to the need for Ekiti APC to be rejigged and be more united, the statechairman of SWAGA, Senator Tony Adeniyi (SAN), said the large turnout of APC members had confirmed the group’s acceptability in Ekiti.

Adeniyi upbraided those who were branding SWAGA members as “renegades” and “troublers” of APC, describing them as ignorants, who knew nothing about party politics.
“APC belongs to SWAGA, which represents the agenda of Senator Bola Tinubu’spresidential bid and let me say this, those saying we are doing anti-party have psychiatricproblem. We have not committed any crime for working for the presidential aspiration of Senator Tinubu.

“The governornorship primary is around the corner, go and brace up. Get prepared so that whoever will succeed Fayemi will come from SWAGA. All of us will reap the fruits of our labour in our great party,” Adeniyi said.

Meanwhile, a Pro-APC movement in Ekiti state under the acronym ‘Just Keep on Following Group’, has warned the party’s governorship aspirants and their handlers against exhibiting tendencies that could create cleavages and whittle down the party’s support base ahead of the 2022 poll.
Publicity Secretary of the group, Victor Irewolede, in a statement in Ado Ekiti, Saturday, appealed to party members to exercise restraint and have implicit confidence in the leadership of the party on issues of equity and fairness.