Only on Friday, the immediate past governor of the state and Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregesola, blew hot as he revealed that there are two factions in the state chapter at present.
A party source told The Guardian that it would take only President Muhammadu Buhari to reconcile the political warlords, otherwise “the rift between Aregbesola and Oyetola’s factions has defied the leadership of Tinubu and Akande.” The feud between two gladiators worsens on daily basis, even amid efforts by the national leadership of the party to reconcile them and place the party on the path of victory ahead the July 16, governorship election in the state.
At present, Salinsile is heading the minister’s faction of the executives while Prince Gboyega Famodun is heading the faction loyal to Oyetola. Both factions emerged from the parallel state congresses held in October 2021. Both factions are bent on producing separate governorship candidates for the forthcoming governorship poll.
In what appears like an attempt to hit back at Aregbesola, the state government has exposed errors and unpopular policies of the former governor and reviewed them. But Oyetola has always put up a defence that reversals of policies and exposure of blunders perpetuated under Aregbesola’s administration were part of demands of the people.
To prevent going to the poll with a divided house, the national leadership waded into the imbroglio with a view to reconciling aggrieved members. Few hours after the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led APC National Reconciliation committee visited Osogbo, the feud reignited as the two factions have been trading tackles over petitions submitted before the committee and some conditions that Aregbesola’s loyalists laid down for peace to reign.
One of Aregbesola’s loyalists, ‘Lowo Adebiyi, said the leaders of the faction at the meeting with the Reconciliation Committee called for Oyetola’s resignation before the Osun APC governorship primary, since he would be contesting for the governorship ticket. For Ilerioluwa faction, TOP’s demand is self-serving, misleading, sarcastic, spurious and baseless. It called on the committee to dismiss the demand in its entirety as it was meant to clandestinely destroy the corporate image of the party in the state.
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