2027: Ex-Minister Shittu Declares Interest In Oyo Governorship Seat

A erstwhile Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, has expressed his involvement to vie for Oyo State governorship spot successful the 2027 election.

Barr Shittu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) insisted that nary of those aspiring to win Governor Seyi Makinde matches his experience, resources, and vision.

The erstwhile curate who served successful the archetypal word of precocious erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari stated this connected Monday successful an exclusive interrogation connected ‘Frontline’, a existent affairs programme connected a vigor presumption – Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese-Ijebu, Ogun State.

The Saki-born ineligible luminary and person boasted himself arsenic the astir qualified campaigner to inhabit the Oyo State governorship seat, referencing his implicit 4 decades of governmental career.

Shittu began his governmental vocation successful 1979 erstwhile helium was elected into the aged Oyo House of Assembly astatine 26 years earlier helium was appointed aforesaid twelvemonth arsenic Commissioner for Information, Culture, and Home Affairs.

He aboriginal served arsenic Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice successful Oyo State and had since engrossed with his ineligible signifier earlier his assignment arsenic the Minister of Communications betwixt 2015 and 2019 by Buhari.

“As of today, I americium the lone 1 who has a manifesto of what precisely I privation to bash erstwhile I get to government. I americium acceptable for government. Even if I get to authorities today, I already cognize and person a wide idea, I privation to alteration Oyo State similar it had ne'er happened before,” helium declared.

Speaking connected the request for fairness among different zones that person not produced politician successful the state, Shittu maintained that his Oke-Ogun has been marginalised successful the powerfulness operation and called for its just stock of leadership.

“Let maine archer you, the information of it is, Ibadan, implicit the past forty oregon 30 years, has produced six antithetic governors, Ogbomosho has produced a governor, but Oke-Ogun, with 10 section governments, has ne'er had the accidental to nutrient a governor.

“The happening indispensable rotate; it cannot beryllium Ibadan unsocial each the time. We are successful a democracy, not successful a dictatorship; ‘enough is capable for Ibadan’.”

Reminded of his property astatine 72, Shittu dismissed this, saying, “Age is conscionable a number. If you privation to comparison me, bash that successful presumption of quality and dynamism. I’m arsenic beardown as, if not stronger than, anyone my age.”