Aregbesola, An Ingrate, Claims To Be What He Is Not – Osun APC Factional Chairman

By Ayodele Oni

Factional Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, (APC), in Osun State loyal to Governor Gboyega Oyetola, has reacted to the acceptance by the Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, of being the brain behind the anti-party activities of a pressure group, The Osun Progressives (TOP).

TOP is a faction within the APC loyal to the Minister and two term Governor of the State.

At an event in Ilesa, Osun State on Friday, Aregbesola publicly acknowledged his membership of TOP.

But, Prince Gboyega Famodun, berated the Minister, saying that his conduct in that regard was far below the expectation of the right-thinking members of the society.

In a statement personally signed by him in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, at the weekend, he stated that it was unfortunate that Aregbesola, the immediate-past Governor of the State, could champion subversive activities against the political party that has transformed his life from that of obscurity to limelight.

“Aregbesola, used the APC to become  a Commissioner in Lagos State, two-term Governor of Osun State and a serving Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The intra-APC opposition group, called TOP, which meets every Thursday in the Campaign Office of the Interior Minister in Osogbo as  a congregation where barrage of insults are heaped on the person of Governor Gboyega Oyetola, the State leadership of the APC and the State Government by the leadership of the said TOP.

“This disgruntled set of  APC members are peopled by members of the cabinet of Aregbesola during his two terms as the Governor of the State, who are now protesting their not being appointed by Governor Oyetola for the third term.”

Famodun pointedly told Aregbesola  to perish the thought and notion of being the Alpha and Omega of Osun State progressive politics, reminding him that he is only grandstanding in the glory of the past.

“Osun APC is too strong for Aregbesola to break. His recent statement in Ilesa reduces his status as a former governor and as a serving minister of a party he claimed to belong.

“Aregbesola is an arrogant, selfish, self-centered, reckless, wicked and inconsiderate politician who wants the whole world to be his possession.

“It is not an overstatement to categorise Aregbesola as someone who prefers to rule in hell than to serve in paradise.

“Aregbesola should be told that there is no amount of intrigues by him that is capable of bungling the second term ambition of Governor Oyetola as it has divine guidance and pathfinder which makes him(the governor) unstoppable by any mortal.”

Oyetola was Chief of Staff to Aregbesola when he was Osun State Governor.