Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s media aide, Paul Ibe, has said his principal was not silent on the January 16 explosion that killed five persons, injured 77, and destroyed 58 houses in the Old Bodija area of Ibadan, Oyo State.
Ibe was reacting to Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, who remarked on Monday that Atiku had not reached out or condoled with the government and people of Oyo State over the tragic incident.
Makinde stated this in Ibadan when a former governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last general elections, Peter Obi, paid him a condolence visit over the January 16 explosion.
Makinde said,
“Let me use this opportunity to thank the former governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, for the visit. I thank him because politics didn’t seep into this.
You came here to commiserate with us over the explosion. The investigation is going on. It was simply illegal miners storing explosives in an environment where they shouldn’t be