The suspended Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Abayomi Arabambi, has faulted Tuesday’s appointment of Akin Osuntokun as the Director General of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council.
Arabambi, who disclosed that Obi’s new campaign DG is the senatorial candidate for Zenith Labour Party representing Ekiti Central district, accused him of being fraudulent and deceitful.
But Osuntokun kicked against the allegation, saying he was not a member of the ZLP and never had the said senatorial ambition as speculated.
The former political aide to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo was announced as the new campaign helmsman in Abuja during a strategic meeting of the LP candidates and the National Working Committee of the party.
Osuntokun replaced former DG of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, who announced his resignation in a letter last Tuesday following a Federal High Court ruling in Abuja that convicted him of violating Money Laundering Act.
But Arabambi maintained that Osuntokun’s appointment was obtained with “fraudulent intentions, mischief, distortion and suppression of facts,” an act he described as insult on the collective integrity of Nigerians.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the suspended image maker of the party disclosed that Osuntokun could not be trusted with such a position as a result of several factors, which included “divided loyalty, deliberate falsehood and political infraction.”
Defending his claim, Arabambi urged our correspondent to get a list of the Independent National Electoral Commission containing the names of 2023 election candidates.
According to him, Osuntokun remains the ZLP senatorial candidate for Ekiti central district.
The presidential candidate of the ZLP is Dan Nwanyanwu, who also doubles as the party’s national chairman.
Arabambi said, “In the list of candidates just cleared by INEC for the National Assembly elections, Akin Osuntokun’s name and particulars were there, and this show that he is a member of the ZLP and also its National Assembly candidate
