Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has declared that he is the most qualified candidate for the governorship election come 2019.
Shittu gave the hint on Saturday in an interactive session with members of Southwest Group of Online Publishers (SWEGOP) in Ibadan.
The minister stated that going by his vast experience, having served in all the three branches of government made him the best-placed candidate, saying that this will certainly add a lot of value to the benefit of Oyo state.
Shittu also expressed certitude that he will clinch the APC’s ticket, just as he guaranteed maximum support and assistance from the leadership of the party in the state.
In his words: “let me assure you that everyone of them will support me and I dare say even; that Ajimobi will support me by the Grace of God, I can foresee that he will be the one to raise my hand up as the candidate of the party.
“Governor Ajimobi is appreciative of what Oke Ogun has done for him in the 2015 elections when Ibadan refused to vote for him. They voted for Accord party, but we in Oke Ogun voted for Governor Ajimobi and true to type he tells everybody that it is the turn of Oke Ogun.
“But that is not to say that I want to be measured on the standard of coming from Oke Ogun because by every yardstick of merit, not just because I come from Oke Ogun, I am the most qualified of all the candidates. I have served in the executive, I have served in the legislature and served in the judiciary and today by the grace of God I am the minister, the experience I have had as a minister of communications will certainly add a lot of value to the benefit of Oyo state”.
Promising to do things differently in tandem with what the late sage and political idol, Awolowo did, the ex-lawmaker, Shittu claimed, ” I am the only one who has had direct training at Awolowo’s political feat while he was alive, the greatest politician that ever lived in Nigeria.
“I sat with him, we formulate policies together, policies about free Education, free health services, policies about employment for all and policies about integrated infrastructural and rural development. I have all of these in my brain and I assure the people of this state that my regime will be a refreshingly different from every other government that has ever happened.
“I am not kidding. For me, if I had started politics at age 26 and I am now 64 and consistently I have been in politics, nobody have such credentials, for me politics is the most important business anybody can do because it is through politics that you can impact the greatest value into the lives of people”, he maintained.
