Indigenes of Saki and Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State under the aegis of the National Association of Saki Elite have asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the Senate to ignore the petition written by the Oyo State leadership of the All Progressives Congress against the ministerial nominee from the state, Mr. Bayo Shittu.
The call was contained in a statement jointly by both the National President and General Secretary of the association, Dele Togunde and Abraham Ogunkanmbi, respectively.
Shortly after the Senate President Bukola Saraki unveiled Buhari’s ministerial list on Tuesday, the leadership of the APC in Oyo State petitioned the President to reconsider Barrister Shittu’s nomination due to his alleged anti-party activities.
However, NASE argued that the APC leadership in the state was only trying to marginalise the people of Oke-Ogun.
The statement read in part, “Such opposition is a calculated attempt by the enemies of Saki in particular and Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State in general to continue with the marginalisation process that has been on-going for many years”.
NASE, which described Shittu as an illustrious son of Saki, pledged its unalloyed support for him for a ministerial position based on his antecedent.
According to the association, Shittu was a member of the Oyo State House of Assembly during the Second Republic, a former Oyo State Commissioner for Justice and a governorship candidate of the Buhari-led Congress for Progressive Change in 2011.
“We are calling on President Buhari and the National Assembly to please go ahead to ratify the appointment of Shittu as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in this political dispensation”, the association stated.
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