Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun on Friday took a dig at former Lagos State Governor and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Senator Bola Tinubu obliquely referring to the APC chieftain as an emperor.
Governor Abiodun in a tweet via his Twitter handle said he was holding the governorship of Ogun State on behalf of the people of the state noting that he was not an emperor since the seat of governor was not an inheritance.
“I am not an emperor by any chance and this is not my family inheritance,” the governor said on Friday.
“I am holding this position in trust for all the people of this state and I have vowed to be fair, just and equitable and this is the solemn agreement I made between the Almighty God and myself”, Governor Abiodun said on Twitter.
The Ogun Governor’s comments came in response to Tinubu’s jibe on Thursday during a visit to Ogun State delegates. The former Lagos Governor had told delegates that but for him Governor Abiodun would not have made it to the Ogun State Government House. Tinubu had said to the delegates:
“Dapo that’s sitting down here, could he have become Governor without me?” he said during the event on Thursday.
“We were at the stadium; they tore all his posters. Even the party flag, they didn’t want to hand over it to him. I was the one who brought it. If he wants to meet God at the right place, he must know that without God and me, he would not have become Governor.”
Governor Abiodun and Senator Tinubu when the Governor visited the APC chieftain in London last year
