Osun 2022: Aregbesola Tackles Tinubu, Oyetola, Akande

The longtime political relationship between the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has declined and even worsened.

This is evident as Aregbesola on Monday said Tinubu, who he had once trusted politically, betrayed him, Naija News reports.

The former governor of Osun State on Monday lamented Tinubu’s involvement and lackadaisical attitude towards the poor governance of the incumbent Osun Governor Gboyega Oyetola.

Aregbesola accused Tinubu and former APC interim chairman and ex-governor of Osun State, Bisi Akande, of foisting Oyetola on the people against the popular will.

The Minister frowned at the development and declared that enough is enough for the politics of godfatherism and enthronement by treacherous leaders who equated themselves to the status of a god.

Naija News understands that there are ongoing controversies in the APC ahead of the party’s governorship primaries on Saturday.

Aregbesola is understood to be leading an APC faction in the state.

However, he has been at loggerhead with his successor who has received Tinubu’s backing to govern the state for a second term.

According to Aregbesola, the incumbent governor had refused to consolidate on his eight-year achievements.

The Minister, therefore, called on the party members in Osun to support a former Secretary to the State Government, Moshood Adeoti, in Saturday’s governorship primary.

Aregbesola noted that the incumbent governor had deviated from the true tenets of the APC.

He also accused those at the helms of affairs of jettisoning true democracy and the principles which the party and its heroes stand for.

According to Aregbesola, just as ex-Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, was rejected by APC members in 2019 for working against the laid down rules, Oyetola would be thrown out of office after just a term.

Naija News reports that Aregbesola made the statements in the Ijebu Jesa area of the state while addressing members of the APC ahead of Saturday’s primary polls.

The aspirants warming up for the party primary include the incumbent governor, Oyetola; former Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Yusuff Lasun; and former Secretary to the State Government, Adeoti; who recently returned to the ruling APC in June 2020, from the Action Democratic Party.