I Begged Oyetola For Two Years To Stop Humiliating Me – Aregbesola

 

• Urges APC Members To Vote Massively For Adeoti

Sodiq Yusuf

THE Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has disclosed that he begged the Governor of the State of Osun, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola for two years to stop humiliating him and destroying his legacy.

Aregbesola said it was surprising that Oyetola started to witch-hunt him immediately he got the mantle of leadership.

The minister spoke yesterday in Ikire at the Ayedaade/Irewole/Isokan Federal Constituency meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) meeting to familiarise Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, a leading governorship aspirant with members of the party.

He said Oyetola deserved to be replaced because he has derailed from the progressive path.

The former governor of the state said: “There is no harm in replacing someone who is not doing well and not in tandem with progressive ideals. That is what we are working on and that is why we have come to you.

“I worked very hard to ensure Oyetola’s election. It was however a rude shock when he got into office and started a grand witch-hunt against me. We campaigned for Oyetola through thick and thin to make him Governor. It was however surprising to see how he was doing to me when he got to office.

“When he started doing it, I sent emissaries and started begging him. This went on for two years. I continued to send emissaries to him to appeal to him. I also begged him too. I even told him not to like me at all, but not destroy my good works or personality. He did not heed to this. He kept on with his witch-hunt.

“He said I did not support him to become Governor. I appealed to him that he may not even like me, but he should not tarnish my image or destroy my legacies and that of our party, the true progressives in Osun politics. He did not listen. He was bent on destroying me and that’s what he has done.

“After two years, I gathered all our genuine party leaders together with the sole aim of rescuing our party from these marauders. That is what we are here to do. We were the ones who sweat hard for the progress and success our party has achieved. We brought the former party Chairman, (Famodun) from the PDP. It is time to send them packing.”

Aregbesola noted that it is time to reject Oyetola and support Adeoti, to be the next Governor of Osun.

He held that it is indeed time to restore Osun to the hands of true progressives which the party members must key into to entrench the dividends of democracy.

Members of the APC in the Federal Constituency had yesterday converged on Ikire, headquarters of Irewole Local Government, to receive the train of Adeoti ahead of Saturday’s primaries of the party in the State.

Led by Aregbesola, Osun APC Chairman, Alhaji Rasaq Salinsile, TOP Chairman, Reverend ‘Lowo Adebiyi among other dignitaries, the party leaders urged the party faithful in the area to come out in their thousands to ensure that Adeoti emerges the party’s candidate on Saturday.

In his remarks, Adeoti re-echoed the need for party members to support his ambition.

He promised to build on the legacies of the APC in Osun as enshrined in the ideals of good governance entrenched by the Aregbesola administration in Osun from November 2010 to November 2018.

He urged party members not to be afraid but come out en-masse to make him the party’s candidate for the July 16, 2022 governorship election.