Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu middle and other APC leaders at the meeting.
Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, the Minister of Communications, is full of confidence that he is the next man to govern Oyo State from the Africa’s biggest city of Ibadan.
Shittu expressed the confidence during a press briefing in Ibadan, held after a meeting with members of All Progressives Congress (APC) from Egbeda Local Government and Ajorosun Local Council Development Area, that he would succeed Governor Abiola Ajimobi as governor of Oyo State in 2019.
The Minister, who is an APC governorship aspirant, said he would take over from Ajimobi to improve on the good work already started.
According to him, he is the most experienced of all the aspirants, having held several public offices and learnt politics from late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
“I was a member of the State House of Assembly in 1979 and two-time Commissioner in the State. I have also contested the governorship seat in the state twice before I became a minister.
“These are experiences you cannot buy. Oyo is advanced and sophisticated to be handled by inexperienced administrators,’’ he said.
Shittu dismissed the ongoing re-alignment in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying the party was a non-starter at the state and federal level.
