A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Jackson Lekan-Ojo, has called for the query of immediate past Governor of Osun state for the poor performance of the party in the past and recent elections in the state.
He said the failure of Aregbesola to win his Senatorial district calls for concern when the two other senatorial district were won by APC.
Only the Osun East Senatorial district, where former Governor Aregbesola hailed, was won by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, while the Central and West were won by the APC.
Speaking with news men in Osogbo, the state capital, the APC leader said the recent judgement of the tribunal was as a result of the attitude of APC leadership who he said allowed the judgement to be bought.
“I believe Aregbesola traded some of the victory of the party away, particularly in his own Senatorial district where I comes from. How can a sitting Governor lose his own Senatorial district? The other Senatorial district where they did not produce the Governor, APC won there.
“I believe the party should query him very well. He has not done enough. He couldn’t talk to Omisore when the issue of alliance was moved. It was Kayode Fayemi that left Ekiti to come and talk to Omisore. He is not a good leader.
“The judgement is as a result of the lackadaisical attitude of APC leadership in Osun state. The leadership of APC underrated the PDP. It was a purchased ruling. The ruling can not stand the test of the time. I’m sure that the Court of Appeal will upturn the ruling.
“I don’t trust the former Governor Rauf Aregbesola when it comes to loyalty to the party. Is like a person leaving house and begin to damage the structure. I suspect that the party was sold away and I believe that APC headed by Governor Aregbesola sold the party away.
“We all knew that members of the National Assembly are very important to the president and if somebody can open his eyes and lose his Senatorial district. See what has happened to APC in the 8th assembly. It is the worst assembly in the political history of Nigeria. Do we expect something like that? Despite how important the National Assembly seat is, Aregbesola lost in his Senatorial district. He can go and be a Commissioner in Lagos, but giving him a minister, possibly they can give him ambassador and send him to Afghanistan.
Reacting to the purported issue between the former Governor and his successor, the APC chieftain said the fact that Aregbesola does not support the candidacy of Oyetola does not mean he should not work for the victory of the party.
He said, “Oyetola went through the primary. Aregbesola know that Oyetola is not somebody he can confront when he become the governor because of the very powerful forces behind Oyetola, and base on that, Aregbesola has to refuse to support him, but there was nothing he could do because the person that put Oyetola in place was the person that put Aregbesola in place.
Speaking on the attitude of political leaders in Nigeria, he opined that Nigeria is not ripe for democracy, saying “Nigeria is never in a democratic setting.
He said “it is the government of the thugs, by the thugs and for the thugs. The problem is that nobody is really coming to serve. Most of our leaders in Nigeria are those that can not survive without politics. All of them are coming to loot, to steal and to deceive Nigerians. If you are coming to serve and people say no, you don’t need to go and recruit thugs to win at all cost.
The APC chieftain called on Nigerians to join in the fight against insurgents, noting that the federal government alone has been involved in the fight.
