Blackmail By Politicians Won’t Stop My Gubernatorial Bid – Osun State Speaker

Osun State Speaker, House Of Assembly, Najeem Salaam. Source: Informationng

The Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salam has said efforts to blackmail him by some politicians so as to prevent him from succeeding Governor Rauf Aregbesola would prove abortive.

This the Speaker said in Oshogbo while declaring his intentions to run for governorship at the state secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state.

He said some of this politicians had cooked up lies against him, saying that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had paid him N250m to forget his governorship aspiration and support a certain governorship aspirant.

The Ejigbo-born politician said there was no way he would have come out in full force to declare his ambition if truly he had been paid to drop it.

He said, “They came up with falsehood that I went to Lagos and I was paid to drop my governorship ambition. It is not true. There is no way I would come out this way if I had been paid.

“Would they not ask me the reason behind my declaration if truly I had been paid to drop my ambition? No amount of blackmail can stop me.”