Wale Adedayo Interview In The Cable - Wale Is A Liar, On A Mission To Pull Others Down.

Wale Adedayo Interview In The Cable - Wale Is A Liar, On A Mission To Pull Others Down.

Yesterday evening, I read the interview of Wale Adedayo in The Cable, an on-line medium, wherein he alleged that I called him to write the allegations against the Ogun State Governor and that the allegations were backed by 17 Council Chairmen.

I immediately called Wale and asked him why he lied on the true trend of events on the issue. He promised to read the interview and get back to me. 

After waiting for 24 hours without a rebuttal of the narrative from him, I resolved to openly respond to his allegations.   

Sometimes in August 2023, most likely on Friday, 25th August, 2023, I got a call from Mr Wale Adedayo. 

He told me he had just returned from a trip to Abuja where he met some political dignitaries and that he had written a letter which he wanted to give to Chief Olusegun Osoba. He said he wanted to see me before delivering the letter.  He didn't show up. 

On Sunday, 27th August, 2023, at 7.10pm, Wale Adedayo sent a letter to the WhatsApp group platform of Local Government Chairmen. The letter read: 

Dear all.

I sent a letter to our leader, Chief Olusegun Osoba. The details are below. For those who might feel offended, e jebure o!

I just feel we owe it a responsibility to our constituents to do what we took an oath to do while in office. And without money, there is nothing anyone can do.

Members expressed shock that he wrote such a letter without the consent of the body. However,  since he said he had sent it to Chief Osoba, he was told that the letter should not go beyond that. 

Surprisingly, by the evening of Monday, 28th August, 2023,  the letter had gone viral on all social and print media. We were shocked. 

In the morning of Tuesday, 29th August, 2023, Wale called to inform me  that the Secretary to the State Government called and asked him why wrote such a letter and sent it out to the media. He said he told him that it was ALGON that mandated him to do it. 

I also asked him why he did it, especially when the body had told him to cease further spread of the letter after sending it to Chief Osoba. He said it was a senior journalist colleague that spread it. He sought my support in case the State government enquires from me.  

Few minutes after the call, I got a call from the Secretary to the State Government,  asking if we, ALGON, asked Wale to write the letter. I answered in the affirmative. 

I did this in the belief that, as the Chairman of  Chairmen, I should protect him from the likely consequences of his action. 

We were invited, through me, to a meeting with the state government,  later in the afternoon of the same day. I called an emergency meeting  of ALGON at Ake, Abeokuta South Local Government by 11.00am to discuss  the burning issue before meeting the state government team. 

At that meeting, 17 Council Chairmen were present. 

Once again, I asked Wale why he took that action, especially going to the press,  when he had been told to desist from further spread of the letter. He told us that it was a senior journalist who spread it and not him. We also asked him why he wrote  the EFCC.  He said said when Chief Osoba did not respond, someone  advised him to write the EFCC. We told him outrightly that his actions were wrong. Nonetheless,  we resolved to rally round him, though there were few dissenting voices who felt he should be left to face the consequences alone. 

The meeting at  Ake was to salvage the situation and rally support for him and not leave him alone in that period of trouble, in the belief that injury to one, is injury to all. It was not to ratify what he wrote. There was never a  meeting where he was asked to write anything. Wale acted alone.