‘I’m an elder’ – Gbenga Daniel replies Ogun APC

Former Ogun State Governor and Senator representing Ogun East, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has said he was not peeved by all the allegations levelled against by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State.

Daniel, who described himself as an elder, said he would not react to the allegations as he has before, him, the need to move people out of poverty.

Newspot reports that Daniel, in an interview attracted serious attack from the Governor Dapo Abiodun faction of the APC following an interview he granted a national newspaper.

The Senator had in the interview alleged that the reason for the frosty relationship between him and Gov Abiodun, was because of his choice of support for President Bola Tinubu when he contested for the presidential ticket of the APC.

Daniel said Abiodun was fighting him because he (Daniel) did not support Former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who also contested for the ticket.

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Reacting to the former governor, the Ogun APC said Daniel never supported the candidacy of Tinubu, neither did he have a delegate at the primary election.

In a statement signed by the State Assistant Publicity Secretary of Ogun APC, Olusola Ogunsanya, the party insisted that the senator’s interview was filled with lies and falsehood, alleging that the erstwhile governor supported the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidates during the March 18 governorship election in Ogun State.

However, Gbenga Daniel, during an interactive session with members of the League of Yoruba Media Practitioners, (LYMP), said he needs not respond to the allegations against him.

Making an allusion to the popular Yoruba saying that an elder tolerates all things, Daniel said he would tolerate all the allegations as an elder.

Asked to comment on the allegations, Daniel retorted: “I am an elder, I have to absorb so much, and I am already tolerating the allegations against me. Whatever they (the APC group) said, let us agree it is so.

“But, what is more important is how we can lift our people out of poverty, how they can be free from hunger and pain. I am praying that this job, which I have been sent to the Senate to do, I shall do very well, and the good Lord will strengthen me to do more than the people’s expectations.

“I want to assure our people that I am not after anything, God has been benevolent to me right from my childhood. I am not after anything more than how we can leave the stage better than we met it.”