By Bilesanmi Abayomi
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ola Fashola, has accused some party members of deliberately misrepresenting his social media activities to portray him as being critical of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Fashola, in a Facebook post on Monday, alleged that certain individuals within the party had been monitoring his posts and reporting them to leaders at ACME, the Lagos APC secretariat.
“For some months now, one morafoka has been trailing me on this Blue App; monitoring my posts and comments on public affairs in Nigeria and constantly reporting me in ACME and to some political leaders that I am against PBAT,” he wrote.
The APC chieftain, who expressed frustration over the alleged witch-hunt, said he had received several calls from party leaders advising him to stop making critical remarks about the President.
Fashola, however, insisted that his views on national issues were independent and within his constitutional right to freedom of expression.
“I am old enough to have my own independent mind and thoughts,” he said. “Since the so-called monitoring spirit refused to see posts where I praised Mr President but concerned himself only on corrective ones, he should then scroll up and see what I posted against the late Buhari’s government back then.”
He described the actions of his critics as hypocritical, noting that they chose to ignore his supportive posts about the President while amplifying those that were corrective.
Reaffirming his loyalty to both President Tinubu and the APC, Fashola stated that his comments were not borne out of disloyalty but a genuine desire for good governance.
“I am never a bootlicker,” he declared. “No one can claim to be more PBATic than I am.”
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