Osun 2022: Aregbesola draws the battle line against Oyetola, Tinubu

Ahead of Saturday Osun State governorship election primary, the Minister of Interior and former Governor if the state, Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday drew the battle line against Governor Gboyega Oyetola, his perceived godfathers, Bola Tinubu, and Bisi Akande.

This was as Aregbesola vowed to ensure that APC in Osun State treated Oyetola the way a former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode was treated, by making sure Oyetola is voted out by APC members and denied a second term as was done to Ambode during the 2019 primary election in Lagos.

The minister lambasted the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Tinubu, and a former APC interim Chairman and ex-governor of Osun State, Akande, accusing them of foisting Oyetola on the people of the state against their will.

Aregbesola, therefore, called on APC members in Osun to support a former Secretary to the State Government, Moshood Adeoti, in Saturday’s governorship primary for the Osun 2022 gubernatorial election.

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Aregbesola spoke in the Ijebu Jesa area of the state while addressing members of the APC ahead of Saturday’s governorship primary election.

He said, “Only God can terrify us, not man. Go and tell them wherever they are, we own this party. We own this Afenifere group. We own this people-loving group started by our patriarchs — (Obafemi) Awolowo and Bola Ige. This is Elder Akande’s group before he temporarily left us. This is our party. Stop calling yourself a factional group; you are not a faction; you are the authentic APC.”

To buttress his stand, the former governor sang this song, “Bye-bye to jagba-jagba, rede rede (nonsense).”

Speaking further he said, “We came back home to reposition our party to where it was meant to be because we followed the leading of our leader that we thought was a noble and reliable fellow. We followed him (Tinubu) dutifully with all sense of loyalty. Some people even thought that we were no longer Muslims because of how we cooperated with him. We dealt with him without treachery but we never knew he planned evil for us. We exalted him beyond his status and he turned himself to a god over us and we had sworn to ridicule anyone who compare himself to God. God has no competitor; He is enough to be God.

“We built this party on perseverance as well as sweat and blood. We lost a lot of people in this struggle but eventually, we came into government on November 27, 2010. We were in government for eight years and governed according to the measure of God’s grace, everybody in Osun enjoyed our tenure.

“When he (Tinubu) will hand over the present governor to me around July of 2018, he (Tinubu) declared that he (Oyetola) will succeed me and continue my good works. That was what he told me. He knows he has not done so if he is listening now and he has failed to call my successor to order.”

According to Aregbesola, if Tinubu and other APC members in Lagos rejected Ambode on the claims that he derailed from the original master plan, then, dethroning Oyetola in Osun is the right thing to do because the Osun governor had derailed from the master plan too.

“That was how it was in Lagos at a time; a governor derailed and the party members unseated him using the ballot boxes. As it was in Lagos yesterday, so shall it be in Osun today. What is good for the goose is also good for the gander,” he said.