BUHARI SOUTH WEST CAMPAIGN OFFICE SHUT OVER N3MILLION DEBT

However, recent investigation showed that, the campaign materials illustrated on the building, located along Mokola-Sango Road in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, have been removed, about 10 months ago, prompting insinuations in some quarters that Shittu had “abandoned” the Buhari/Osinbajo campaign and “shut down” the building.

The Director of Media and Strategy for the Adebayo Shittu Governorship Campaign Organisation,  Saheed Oladele told journalist that the rent for the building had recently expired, and Shittu, unable to immediately afford the N3million annual rent, had to vacate the premises.

He explained that the building, owned by Hon. Ajibola Muraina, a  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, was rented for Shittu by Engineer Tola Ajala, one of his political associates.

“When we begged them and they said they had other people who wanted to rent the place, we had to give it up,” Oladele said.

‘We are now looking for a better place when we have the money. The Minister is taking steps to bring the Buhari campaign to South-West as he did in 2015 when he was the coordinator in the South-West”

He added further that Shittu remains Buhari’s loyalist, arguing that ‘how will Shittu shut down Buhari campaign house in Oyo State when he was still with Buhari just yesterday?’

“Engr Ajala was the one who paid for the house, so that the Honourable Minister could use it as Buhari’s campaign office in the South-West. But now that the rent has expired and that we are still unable to pay, obviously we had to leave’,.

“There’s no talk of crisis. Not at all. We don’t have any crisis with Buhari, because the Minister is ever grateful to Buhari. He made him Minister from nobody’Oladele emphasised.

Penpushing recalled that, the Minister of Communication had earlier nursed Governorship ambition in Oyo State under the banner of All Progressives Congress(APC),but was disqualified from the party primaries following his indictment of not participating in the one year mandatory National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) exercise