Osun governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has reacted to insinuations doing the rounds that a former governor of the state and minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola was partly instrumental in his victory in Saturday’s guber poll.
Adeleke, who fielded questions in a pre-recorded interview on Channels TV’s “Politics Today” aired on Monday night, said Aregbesola never spoke nor met with him.
According to him: “I did not work with Aregbesola, I did not even speak to him, but I know some APC members and his allies that joined us. I can’t tell whether Aregbesola asked his associates to support me or not because I never had a conversation with him.”
Asked to assess the election process, Adeleke said, “it is not easy to defeat an incumbent anywhere in the world.”
Recall that Aregbesola had a face-off with the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, over his alleged imposition of Adegoyega Oyetola on the party in the state as governorship candidate in 2018.
There had been no love lost between Aregbesola and Oyetola ever since the outset of the Governor’s first term.
Governor Oyetola had reportedly moved against Aregbesola, his machinery and supporters in the state, denying them of accommodation in the party and government they worked for to have him (Oyetola) installed as governor.
The political disagreement got to the head when Aregbesola went public to slam hus political leader, Bola Tinubu, for imposing Oyetola on them I’m Osun as governor despite the fact that they had a better candidate who could have sustained his legacy of achievements in greater state.
was said to have worked for the opposition party.
