‘Aregbesola should explain why he didn’t vote for Tinubu, Oyetola’

Immediate –Past Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola should explain why he did not vote for Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the Osun State governorship election in August last year and February 25 presidential poll.

Spokesman of the Ninth Senate, Ajibola Basiru, who carpeted Aregbesola over the extension of his apologies to whoever he might have offended in within the All Progressives Congress (APC), put a question mark on Aregbesola’s APC membership status.

The former minister was Oyetola’s predecessor as Osun State governor. He openly opposed Oyetola’s re-election last year.

Oyetola’s challenger, Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, defeated the APC in Aregbesola’s polling unit at the election.

Senator Bashiru who served in Aregbesola’s administration as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, also lost his re-election bid to the candidate, Olubiyi Fadeyi.

The former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, who presented his scorecard in Osogbo yesterday, berated the faction loyal to Aregbesola for working against Tinubu and Oyetola.

He said: “Leaders of our party that are still in the party today and I know Baba Bisi Akande and former governor Gboyega Oyetola. We have had four important processes leading to the last general elections which he didn’t participated.

“I cannot deny that Aregbesola was our leader, but today, I am not sure whether he is still within the party. I don’t know which party he belongs to. For the past three elections, we have not seen him participating in any of our party activities.

“Today, I’m in APC and I work for the party whether we win or lose. Ask Aregbesola which party he voted for during the presidential, governorship and National Assembly elections and where he voted.

“We only have one APC in the state. I sent a written memo to the former minister in 2021, pleading that as a leader of the party, no matter what issues or grievances he has, he should not engaged in the factionalization of the party.

“When there are disagreements, it is not by seeking to undermine the state platform you rode to the top.”

He also chided a prominent Osun monarch for leaving his royal duty to oppose his re-election to pitch tent with the PDP against other political parties.