Afrigather The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked the declare by the previous governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, that an settlement was reached on August twenty sixth, 2021, the place it was agreed that his faction be thought of in forming the federal government by giving it one-third of the appointments within the second time period of Oyetola’s administration.
The occasion famous that maybe, the previous Inside Minister was making a reference to the settlement he reached with the Adeleke dynasty because the APC didn’t make the 2022 governorship election in Osun, including that no marvel the Aregbesola faction was accorded one-third of appointments within the present administration, led by Senator Ademola Adeleke as governor.
Reacting to the claims by Aregbesola, the APC chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in an announcement issued by the occasion’s Director of Media and Info, Chief Kola Olabisi, mentioned to one of the best of his data, the one settlement, endorsed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande occurred in December 2020 and that Aregbesola reneged on the spirit and letter of the mentioned settlement.
He famous that: “On the finish of the assembly, it was Aregbesola who ready the contents of the resolutions and gave it to our Baba, Chief Bisi Akande, to vet earlier than it was handed on to the leaders of the occasion. And a part of the settlement was that there could be an computerized ticket for Oyetola and that whereas Oyetola could be allowed to face governance with out interference from any quarters, the trio of
Chief Bisi Akande, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola will lead, information, coordinate and administer the occasion because the apex physique.
“However in the course of the primaries, Aregbesola sponsored Alhaji Moshood Adeoti towards Oyetola opposite to the settlement reached. Oyetola received the election by 222,169 votes towards Adeoti’s 12,921 votes. The identical Aregbesola went to court docket with Adeoti to problem the end result of the first. He additionally sponsored 10 completely different instances in numerous courts to problem the nomination of Oyetola because the candidate of the APC. Earlier than then, he held a parallel congress and pushed unsuccessfully to have a validly elected chairman of the occasion changed along with his factional chairman.
“As if that was not sufficient, Aregbesola went forward to sponsor three completely different candidates towards Oyetola within the governorship election. So, who betrayed one another? You be the decide. The truth is, we’re shocked that the Nationwide management of the occasion in Abuja has not acted on all of the petitions we wrote to catalogue Aregbesola’s anti-party actions,” Lawal mentioned.
“On the purported affect of Aregbesola within the final collection of elections in Osun, the APC chairman mentioned, “there’s a restrict to self- adulation. Reality is, the fortune of APC started to say no earlier than Aregbesola left workplace. And it was on account of among the insurance policies which the residents thought of as anti-masses. A few of them are: half wage, single uniform, reclassification of colleges, change of colleges’ names and non-alignment with nationwide coverage on training amongst others.
“As a sitting governor, in 2017, APC misplaced the Osun West senatorial election by profitable only one out of the ten councils whereas the opposition PDP received 9 councils. It was that misfortune that adopted the APC to the 2018 governorship election the place it garnered 255,505 votes, to handle to win, shedding 4 out of the six councils in Ijesaland the place Aregbesola hails from.
