Tinubu/Oyetola: Oyo Progressives Front slams Aregbeola over utterances
Tinubu/Oyetola: Oyo Progressives Front slams Aregbeola over utterances
The Oyo Progressives Front (OPF), a political pressure group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has condemned the statement credited to Minister of the Interior and former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola allegedly directed at leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Osun State governor, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola.
The Minister spoke on Monday in Ijebu Ijesa, Osun State while addressing party faithful ahead of the State governorship primary scheduled for Saturday.
Aregbesola had allegedly described Tinubu as assuming a messianic and demi-god status, praying for God to bring him down.
“We followed and served this leader with all our might. In fact, our loyalty to him had caused some people to start wondering if we were no longer Muslims,” he said.
“But we were with him and served him according to the admonition of our forefathers, who said when serving anyone, we should do so with sincerity and loyalty; that if you regard anyone as your principal, you must serve him wholeheartedly.
“Sadly, we didn’t know that while we wished him well, he didn’t think good of us.
“However, because we placed him higher than where he ordinarily should be, he started to think he is our god.
“Unfortunately, for him, we had sworn to God that whoever compares himself to him, we’d beg Him to bring down such a fellow.”
Aregbesola had equally described Governor Oyetola his predecessor as,“useless and corrupt governor in the history of the state,” vowing that he would work against Oyetola’s second term bid.
The OPF lampooned the Minister for his utterances by throwing to the wind the concept of Omoluabi that he had always espoused. “His utternces have not reflected the Omoluabi ethos of the Yoruba race which he had always claimed to espouse. An Omoluabi would not bite the finger that fed him. Tinubu brought him ( Aregbesola) to limelight when he made him Commissioner for works in Lagos State for eight years. Also through Asiwaju’s support, he was Governor for eight years in Osun. Without Asiwaju, would he have been able to claim the mandate. It is thus unfortunate that Asiwaju has now become his focus of attention.”
In a ststement signed by the State Coordinator, Mr Babatunde Ojetunji, the Group warned the Minister to desist from his present course of action as the end of traitors is not always palatable.
“Oyetola has as much right as anyone to vie for a second term.His fate is not in the hand of Aregbesola but in the hands of God,” the Group noted.
“ It is strange that the Minister is describing Oyetola as corrupt. This man has brought peace to Osun State. He is paying salary of workers as at when due unlike what obtained when Aregbesola was governor in.the same State. It is thus strange that it could come out of the Minister that the governor is corrupt.”