The rapid previous Minister of Interior and ex-Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has advised his supporters that earlier than the tip of the yr 2024, they might know the place his curiosity in Osun politics lies.
Aregbesola spoke in Ilesa, Osun State at an end-of-the-year thanksgiving organised by the Omoluabi Caucus, attended by many leaders of the group throughout the state.
A video capturing Aregbesola’s speech on the occasion was shared on Facebook by one Lekan Arogundade.
The ex-governor narrated how his efforts to make sure that the All Progressives Congress approached the 2022 governorship election as a united social gathering was pissed off.
Aregbesola stated forward of the election, which then-Governor Gboyega Oyetola of the APC misplaced to the Peoples Democratic Party’s Ademola Adeleke, he (Aregbesola) met with representatives of the APC ‘overall leader’ on how appointments needs to be shared.
Aregbesola, nevertheless, stated the ‘overall leader’ of their social gathering failed to satisfy the agreements.
He stated he stayed away from the 2022 Osun APC governorship marketing campaign, following the declaration by a pacesetter of the marketing campaign organisation that anybody not invited shouldn’t trouble to come back.
Speaking in Yoruba language, Aregbesola additional stated,
“I haven’t stated this earlier than. On August 26, 2021, our total chief advised us to satisfy two of his representatives in Abuja.
“Thirty-one folks from my group met with the representatives of our total chief. The assembly began round 10 pm and ended at about 4 a.m. I was not a part of the assembly. But they agreed that these pushed out of the social gathering needs to be reintegrated.
“Those on the assembly additionally agreed that these in authorities then had been extra and due to that, in each appointive and elective posts that had been nonetheless vacant, they need to give our personal aspect one-third whereas they take two-thirds.
“The consultant of our total boss was impressed. I advised him no matter my folks had advised them, I agreed to it. But I gave them some circumstances that I is not going to reveal now if they need me to come back and marketing campaign through the governorship election. But we by no means heard something once more about that settlement to this point.
“The chief of their governorship marketing campaign stated on OSBC that anyone who was not invited shouldn’t come for the marketing campaign. So, I needed to keep away. No true Yoruba man would hear such a declaration and can nonetheless go to the place he was not invited.
“They didn’t cease at that. They went on a marketing campaign of calumny in opposition to me. It was after they failed that they began in search of the place to put the blame. They are shameless.
“They ate their words. By their second year in office, they said it was because they were relating to me that made them not win on the first ballot during the (2018 governorship) election. In November 2020, they said we had Ebola (to avoid a relationship with us). They said we didn’t pay workers’ salaries and pensions. I wanted to come for the second anniversary (of Oyetola in office), but we were told people didn’t want to see us.”
Speaking on his plans concerning politics within the state, he stated,
“We are unperturbed. God will judge each one of us on the role we play in the matter. I deliberately speak about it today because people are just muddling up issues. But by the grace of God, by this time in 2024, you will know where we are heading. It will be clear to everyone where Osun people are heading.”
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