Osun: Adeoti Alleges How Tinubu Insisted Oyetola Must Be Governor

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu has been accused by a governorship aspirant under the Osun Chapter of the party, Moshood Adeoti of installing the current Governor of the state, Gboyega Oyetola.

The former Secretary to the Osun State Government stated this after he was screened at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja on Thursday.

The screening committee also screened the Governor of the state, and the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun Yusuff.

According to Adeoti, he dumped the APC in 2018 to contest for the governorship seat after the primary election of the party was scuttled at the eleventh hour.

He stated: “We had prepared between 75-80 per cent for the primary before it was scuttled at the eleventh hour. Ekiti state primary was conducted based on direct, but when it came to Osun, they changed it to indirect on the instruction of the emperor who happens to be the leader of the party.

“He insisted that his cousin must be the governor. The person I’m talking about is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, he said if his cousin was not returned he would not finance the election.

“The outcome was what you all witnessed, he lost the election in the first ballot by 353 votes and they said out of 310,000 units in Osun, and there was a rerun in seven units and it was the rerun that salvaged the party.”

He further stated that members of the party in 2018 had agreed that power should be shifted to Osun West Senatorial District.

Adeoti added that before the 2018 election, Osun Central had Chief Bisi Akande and Olagunsoye Oyinlola between 1999 to 2010 before being ousted by the courts and Rauf Aregbesola from Osun East was sworn-in 2010, and eventually spent eight years.

He vowed not to dump the ruling party even if Tinubu insisted that his cousin would go for another four years.

Adeoti said, “Let me add that we have just submitted our petition to the caretaker committee on two grounds: first, the date of the gubernatorial primary has been changed from 5th of March to 19th of February without any reason. In Ekiti state, it was extended from 17th of January to 27th but in our case, they are bringing it back by two weeks preceding the national convention.

“Secondly, up till today governor, Gboyega Oyetola is still a member of the CECPC led by Governor Mai Mala Buni. I don’t see how the primary will be free and fair if Oyetola is a judge in his case.”