Aregbesola Not Fit To Demand For Restructuring – Osun APC Factional Chairman

By Ayodele Oni

A faction of the All Progressive Congress,(APC) in Osun State, loyal to Governor Gboyega Oyetola, has disowned its rival faction, The Osun Progressive, (TOP)  led by former Governor Rauf Aregbesola, saying they are no longer members of APC.

TOP members early in the week staged a peaceful protest in Osogbo during which they call for the restructuring of the party in the state.

Gboyega Famodun, chairman of Governor Oyetola faction, told Journalists in Osogbo on Thursday that with the present status of TOP members, they lack moral justification to demand for restructuring of the APC on the state.

“This set of people, who are being funded coordinated and directed by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who is the immediate-past governor of the state, has been a clog in the wheel of  progress of our party and the Governor Gboyega Oyetola-led administration in the state.

“It is an aberation for an outsider to canvass or initiate the restructuring of another body more so when the personality constitutionally recognized to head the affairs of the state, Governor Gboyega Oyetola, had shortly after the governorship election, promised to carry out an effective restructuring and reinvigoration of the party.

“The said self-styled TOP renegades should be told that apart from the fact that they lack competence and moral right to dictate or canvass for the restructuring of our party, the APC in Osun State, it would be foolhardy to allow identified enemies who had worked for the success of an opposition an unfettered chance in our domain.

“Since they, the TOP people, under the patronship of Aregbesola, had done their worst by working assiduously and conscientiously by teaming up with the PDP for the success of Adeleke, which is the highest level of an anti-party activity that can be committed by any politician, it would be a needless venture to enter into any pact with the shameless political group that is bereft of honour.

“Since politics is a game of number and the more the merrier; continuous membership of our party is not foreclosed to any genuine member whose interest would not be counter-productive to the interest of our party as you cannot be an outsider and be canvassing for the restructuring of the party.

“It was not that we didn’t know what and how to handle the members and leaders of the inglorious TOP before the governorship election; we, all along, had been thinking that they would have a genuine change of mind by joining us for the re-election of Governor Oyetola.

“If they all have conscience, it would not be out of tune for the  said TOP members and their leaders to do an individualistic soul-searching and ask themselves if they are indeed  worthy to be called the members of our party again by their obnoxious actions and inactions which partly contributed to the temporary loss of our party’s governorship election in Osun State.

“Was it after they were rebuffed and outrightly rejected by the PDP  which pungently refused them patronages after the governorship election as it was witnessed by the composition of its Transition Committee membership that they thought of coming back into the party with a sing-song of restructuring?

“It was on record that the Interior Minister never took part in any of our governorship campaign, while he also jetted out of the country during the election in order not to take part in such an important election in his state where he is the highest beneficiary by way of an appointment as a minister.

“As if that was not enough, the group under the chairmanship of one Elder Adebiyi Adelowo, the former state Acting Chairman of the APC, went into a wild jubilation after the declaration of the results of the governorship election where the national umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, the winner of the election.”