Osun APC: Aregbesola Says He Regrets Supporting Oyetola’s Emergence As Governor In 2018

By Akinwale Kasali

Less than 24 hours to the Osun State All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship Primary, Minister of Interior and former Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola says he regrets working for the emergence of Adegboyega Oyetola to become Governor of the State in 2018.

Oyetola succeeded Aregbesola as the Governor of the State. Sadly, things fell apart between the two months after the emergence of Oyetola, leading to the  factionalisation  in the State APC.

Dropping a bombshell at Ikire in Irewole Local Government  Area of the State during the consultation tour and presentation of former Secretary to the Osun State Governor, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti as his group’s Governorship aspirant in the Saturday primary election, Aregbesola said that he has realized his mistakes  that the person that was supposed  to be  put forward  was neglected.

According to him, Governor Oyetola has continued to wage war against him since his emergence, adding that the Governor has always believed that he didn’t want him to emerge in the first place.

Canvassing for support for Adeoti at the APC Primary, Aregbesola said: “I served this State with the whole of my heart, I also served Oyetola so that he can succeed me in office.

“When we came to this Ikire for his campaign, we were drenched in rain from Akire’s palace to this place. He is now in that office, he now claims that  I am his enemy. Those who contested against him during our party primary were the ones he pulled closer while he fights me.

“I sent people to help me beg him, not that i asked that he should like me but that he shouldn’t abuse me or destroy my legacies but he wouldn’t listen.

“All that I told and warned him not to do, was what he did. He oppose what I did, all the things I did together with him for eight years, he opposed and reversed.

“He thought he can destroy me through my work, nobody was pushing him, he is pushing himself. He deliberately tows that path. He has deliberately waged war against me.

“When I observed that he would not listen I  decided to call people to chart a way forward because i believe that  progressives family must not be destroyed”.

“We are the ones that bear the flag of this party, we fought for it since 2004. The owner can not stand while his possession is destroyed. Those people who don’t know how we built the party are unpredictable, they can do and undo.

“The party chairman, Famodun, was poached   from PDP, he may return to that party, we must be careful so as  not to allow  him lead us astray”.

It would be recalled that Aregbesola had also lambasted APC National Leader and Presidential Aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the alleged imposition of Oyetola on the people of Osun against their wish, saying that Tinubu is playing god and promoting godfatherism in the APC.