‘Tinubu Not South-West Leader But Jagaban Of Lagos Illiterates’ – Says Newly Appointed Aide
Nigerians, particularly on X, formerly Twitter, have called out one of the newly appointed senior special assistants to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State, Oluyemi Fashipe.
It was reported how the governor announced the appointments of over 320 senior special assistants and special assistants without any assigned portfolio to his cabinet on Saturday.
The appointments by Aiyedatiwa is coming amidst the ongoing conversations around the high cost of governance in the country.
To many Nigerians, the size of government at the federal and state level is over-bloated and too much of a burden for the economy to carry.
A review of the list showed that some of these newly appointed aides including Fasipe live abroad.
However, after the announcement, some X users went down memory lane to unearth multiple posts of him attacking the current Nigerian President and leader of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu.
“Good morning latest APC SSA to the governor
@YemieFash. If you delete old tweets,” one of the X users, @kokomatic posted.
Fasipe’s principal, Aiyedatiwa is a member of the APC and seeking re-election.
“So who made Tinubu leader of the southwest? as far as I am concerned he is the Jagaban of Lagos state illiterates, and maybe their political leader in Lagos but apparently not in the southwest. He can not take positions on behalf of the southwest. He should speak for himself,” the newly appointed SSA posted in a tweet with his username name, @ @YemieFash on 23rd of January, 2020.
Using same platform on 25th of June, 2020, Fasipe said, “Power is transient, Oshiomole is now to be addressed as former APC Chairman and Tinubu will be addressed as aggrieved National leader. Hmmmm.”
