ONDO STATE: APC youths protest appointment of PDP member, Kolade Akinjo as NDDC Board member
…call on President Tinubu to replace Akinjo with APC member from mandate areas, say his appointment is affront
All Progressives Congress (APC) youths in Ondo state called Youth Coalition Group on Wednesday protested over the appointment of PDP member, Hon. Kolade Akinjo as board member representing Ondo State at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
While protesting, the angry youths invaded the state secretariat of the APC in Akure, the capital city of Ondo State to express their grievances over the appointment of Kolade Akinjo from the opposition party, People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
Hon. Kolade Akinjo, a former member and immediate past House of Representatives representing Ilaje/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency who spent 8 years at the green chamber and lost his third term ambition under the platform of the PDP to the APC.
According to the youths, In his third campaign, he worked vigorously against the APC and openly insulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR in a video clip, described Tinubu as a sick man, shaking to paralyse before the general elections.
According to the youths who carried placards with various inscriptions, ‘Akinjo is not APC Member’; ‘Tinubu please, caution Gbajabiamila now before he will destroy your government’; ‘Gbaja, everything no be money ooo’; ‘Stop destroying APC in Ondo State’; ‘PDP cannot eat the fruit of our labour in APC, Tinubu acts now’; ‘Tinubu replace Akinjo now’; ‘NDDC slot is not for the highest bidder’ among others.
The youths called on President Tinubu to replace Hon. Kolade Akinjo with APC member from oil producing communities from Ilaje Local Government area of Ondo State.
The leader of the group, Comrade Ojo Oluwaseyi who lamented that the APC members have been insulted with the appointment of Hon. Kolade Akinjo from the opposition party, hence posed serious threat to members’ loyalty to the party, vowed to continue the protest in Ondo State until President Tinubu does the needful and replace him (Akinjo) with APC member.
“The era of Monkey dey work Bamboo dey chop has gone in Ondo State”. The youth said
