The Youth Wing Of All Progressive Congress, APC, Osun state chapter on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to call the immediate past governor and Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to order over his move to destroy structure of their party in the state.
It would be recalled that some members of the APC who are Aregbesola’s allies on Tuesday stage a protest in Osogbo call for the restructuring of the party, sequel to the loss of the party in the July 16 governorship election to opposition party.
The APC State Youth Leader, Adegoke Akinwemimo disclosed this during a press conference at the party secretariat, Osogbo, the State capital, described the action of Aregbesola’s allies as a public charade and another attempt to prepare ground for opposition party to win future elections.
The youth alleged Aregbesola of sponsored his allies to mobilised and voted against their party in the just concluded Governorship election in the state.
He said that the Aregbesola’s allies have lost every moral ground to claim membership of their party for openly mocked APC declared loss after July 16th election.
He however charged their teeming party members and supporters not to exercise any fear as a result of Aregbesola and his allies pretence, urging them to continue to mobilise support for the party to ensure a sound victory for in all future elections.
According to him, “the Minister and his allies have lost every moral ground to even claim membership of our party, in fact, if it were to be in a saner clime, he ought to have resigned as our party member and relinquish his ministerial position because his heart and soul is no longer with our party. If the minister has any wish for our party, it is total collapse, but he will fail in his sinister mission.
“To understand the dexterity of his political impotency in Osun, the just concluded election is the first election that APC recorded 375, 027 despite that the minister and his allies openly worked against our party, the highest we recorded during his regime when he was Governor and portrayer as ALL MIGHTY, Governor was less than 300,000 votes. It was under his leadership that we lost Osun West Election to Senator Ademola Adeleke during the 2017 Senatorial bye election ridiculously, because we lost 9 out of 10 local governments in Osun West.
“As it was before the public knowledge that some political marauders and unscrupulous elements sponsored by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, under the auspices of The Osun Progressives (TOP) embarked on what can be best described as public charade and disgrace in Osogbo, capital Osun State to blackmail the state leadership of our party, All Progressive Congress (APC).
“Apart from the fact that the former Minister openly sponsored splinter groups to reduce the winning chance of our party to win the just concluded Governorship Election in the state , he openly declared support for opposition party and moved further to mobilise both financial and human resources including security agents under the supervision of his ministry to harass and oppress our teeming members to aid the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
“The PDP candidate openly stated the he received support from Aregbesola allies. Also, the leading figures of his splinter group have since decamped to the PDP. This is aside the fact of using his widely uncirculated newsletter, Osun Defender, to attack our party and Governor Gboyega Oyetola.”
“While we are still studying the results of the election with a view to challenge same at the Tribunal it is important to mention that the over 28,000 votes that was announced as difference for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win the election was harvested from Ede North and South alone.”he stated
