Honourable Biyi Adeleye, the House of Assembly candidate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress for Remo North constituency, Ogun State in the last general election and his Royal Highness, Oba Albert Majungbe, the traditional ruler of Odemo of Isara are at loggerheads with each other. Trouble started after Adeleke lost in the general election as the APC House of Assembly candidate for Remo North constituency in the state.
The former Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun on political matters failed to win a single polling unit out of the 132 in Remo North Local Government and he blamed the traditional ruler for not supporting his ambition. He claimed that Oba Majungbe didn’t mobilise his subjects to support him and this drastically affected his performance at the election. The politician added that despite the fact that the traditional ruler is a card-carrying member of APC, he engaged in anti-party activities and even collected 1,000 bags of cement from Ladi Adebutu, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the state during the Afotamodi festival.
Adeleke added that the traditional ruler received a power generating set as gift from Adebutu and supported the opposition candidate instead of himself.
Responding, Oba Majungbe denied Adeleke’s claims and stated that he had no hand in the politician’s electoral woes. He reminded Adeleke how he diverted the sum of N2.5million donated by Governor Abiodun for the development of Isara community into his own pocket, saying that it was one of the reasons the people of Isara did not vote for him in the election. The Odemo of Isara also added that he had nothing to do with partisan politics, hence Adeleke should stop his cheap blackmail and face his problems.
Clarifying some of his claims, the traditional ruler said the generator Adeleke claimed Adebutu gave to him was given to the palace and not him in 2018 when Adeleke himself was in PDP serving under Ladi Adebutu. The monarch further revealed that Adebutu gave Isara Remo people the cement for community development during the last Afotamodi festival, it wasn’t a personal property of the king. The monarch accused the former lawmaker of releasing his thugs to attack people during the election with the aim of rigging the process. The traditional ruler warned Adeleke that election is not a do-or-die affair and that he should stop turning it into war just because he was pursuing his ambition to become deputy speaker of Ogun state House of Assembly which unfortunately didn’t materialise. He advised him to stop terrorizing the town and insulting him for no reason.
