By Oluwafemi Ojo
Mr Adeniran Oyebade, an All Progressive Congress(APC) aspirant in Ondo Central Senatorial District, has denied fighting dirty with a prostitute while driving a car purportedly belonging to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of the party.
Oyebade, who was referred to as Tinubu’s driver in a short video clip which surfaced on the social media on January 2, 2022, was seen in a duel with an unknown lady.
The lady’s cloth was torn, which led many people to insinuate that Oyebade picked a prostitute whom he did not want to pay “after service”.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Monday in Ondo town, Oyebade explained that he had been living in the United State of America for over 20 years and he came to Nigeria to contest for the Ondo Central Senatorial Seat.
Oyebade, who said that he was just a victim of circumstances, explained the he had never met withTinubu in his life, and neither was he his driver.
“I only branded my vehicle for the APC leader due to the love I have for him. Even in America, I coordinated the entire Washinton DC and Maryland for his presumed presidential ambition,”he said.
Oyebade referred to the video as a mere propaganda calculated at damaging Tinubu’s presidential ambition “as well my senatorial aspiration”.
“What people released on the social medial was not what really happened. Rather it was cropped out to suit their malicious intention.
“I have never met the lady in question before in my entire life. I don’t know her, I don’t have her phone number neither do I know her name.
“I am not a driver as depicted in the video. I work for the executive office of the president of United State, office of Management and Budget in the white House. Is it possible for somebody of my status to stand by the roadside and fight with a prostitute?
“That day, I was at Fidelity Bank to use the ATM at Lekki in Lagos State when a lady approached me, having seen me with the branded vehicle for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and demanded N200,000 from me.
“I have never met Tinubu in my life but I am a loyalist and a die-hard fan, as a matter of fact, I coordinate the entire Washinton DC and entire Marryland for his 2023 presidential ambition even without him knowing.
“The lady threatened that if I failed to pay her, she would blackmail me and make a video of me and put it on social media. And I told her that I was a military man who would not succumb to threat or blackmail because America, where I come from, will never negotiate with any terrorist.
“So, in this case, when the lady started threatening that she would blackmail me, I have to consider her a terrorist, and negotiation to give money in exchange for blackmail is not going to happen.
“In the process she damaged my windscreen, tore my cloth, slapped me and wanted to enter into my car, so, I was preventing her not to enter my vehicle when her cloth tore.
“But on seeing the video on internet, I gathered that it was one of the aide to a presidential aspirant that uploaded the video to paint Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu as irresponsible because the video was just showing the Tinubu’s picture throughout,” he said.
Oyebade, therefore, called on Nigerians to support Tinubu’s ambition for betterment of the country and shun politics of hatred and bigotry.(NAN)
I am not Tinubu’s driver, Ondo APC senatorial aspirant cries out.
