The newly created organization, Omoluabi Progressives, has been told to keep its fans and members at a distance by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State.
In addition, Osun APC warned its members to watch out for Rauf Aregbesola, the group’s chairman and a former state governor.
The Omoluabi Progressives, a new organization within the Osun APC, was introduced on Tuesday in Ilesa by Aregbesola, the recently-retired interior minister, according to Platinum Times.
The Osun APC intimated that the Aregbesola group is just an attention-seeking hoax set up to offer his blind supporters false hope in a statement signed by the party’s chairman and Osun state representative Tajudeen Lawal.
According to Lawal,
“Is it because Aregbesola has lost at the Federal level, Lagos and Osun States that he has resorted to lightening the gullible ones with pap in Osun State?
“It is worthwhile to remind Aregbesola at this juncture that those he sent to the PDP government and are paying second fiddle are now regretting their actions and inactions.
“It is a pity that the former Osun State governor is not in tune with the fact that the people of the state are now wiser and they no longer trust him.
“Aregbesola should know that the Osun State APC of today is intact unlike those inglorious years when he was dictating the pace as the governor, the state party chairman and the Speaker of the state House of Assembly.
“It should be known to Aregbesola that the Osun politics of the APC extraction of today is far better than what it used to be when he would be the sole contributor at party meetings.”
Lawal pleaded with Aregbesola to take a break in order to be in touch with the current political climate.
The Osun APC has consistently insisted that Rauf Aregbesola’s supporters were crucial to the defeat of the party in the gubernatorial and general elections.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said that supporters of Aregbesola and the disbanded The Osun Progressives, TOP, who had joined the PDP, were now regretting their choice.