Patience Leonard, PBA Journalism Mentee
Chairman, Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Gboyega Famodun has accused former Governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola of working against the party yet seeking restructuring of the party.
Famodun also condemned the protest carried out by his supporters which targeted the state leadership of the party, stating that there’s free entry and free exit from the party.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelKola Olabisi, the Media aide to Prince Famodun revealed this in a statement in the early hours of Wednesday.
Olabisi described the protest as “shameful, callous, primitive, selfish, wicked, misplaced and inconsiderate”.
Famodun through the statement claimed that Aregbesola apparently worked against their own candidate during the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state, and faulted his supporters for “canvassing restructuring of the party through a sponsored protest.”
Famodun said, “If you all have a conscience, I will enjoin you to do individualistic soul-searching and ask yourselves if you are worthy to be called the members of our party again by your actions and inactions which partly contributed to our temporary loss of the Osun State governorship election.
“Was it after you were rebuffed by the Pathfinder group faction leadership of the PDP which pungently refused you patronages after the governorship election as it was witnessed by the composition of its Transition Committee membership that you thought of coming back into the party with a sing-song of restructuring?”
He further said “When I heard that the supporters of the immediate past governor of our state, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, were protesting, I thought my memory was playing me falsely as they cannot insulate themselves from whatever might be the current plight of the APC in Osun State.
“Assuming but not conceding that there are challenges within the party, the protesters should be told that they lack the moral right to either suggest or effect any likely solution as it is on record that they massively and collectively worked against Oyetola, the APC governorship candidate in the just-concluded election in line with the series of their threat.
“One would have thought that the appropriate place for them to canvass for the restructuring of any party is Senator Ademola Adeleke’s Ede country home whom they voted for with flaunted pride.
“If I may ask, at what point did it occur to you that the political party that you had abandoned for about three years which you have been working against needs restructuring?
“Did the Adeleke Dynasty not fund your series of campaigns of calumny against Oyetola and the leadership of the party at the Aregbesola Campaign Office where you converge every Thursday with the task of scrambling to outdo one another in lampooning Oyetola’s administration and the leadership of the party?
The State APC Chieftain then said that “there is a free entry and free exit in any political party in which memberships are bonded by common interests and ideals.”
“Since politics is a game of number and the more, the merrier; continuous membership of our party is not foreclosed to any genuine member whose interest would not be counter-productive to the interest of our party as you cannot be an outsider and be canvassing restructuring of the party” Famodun concluded.
