02/08/2022
Famous condemns the protest by Aregbesola's supporters and describes it as shameful, callous, wicked
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the protest embarked upon by the supporters of the Interior Minister, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, against the state leadership of the party and the administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola.
It would be recalled that the placard-carrying Aregbesola supporters under the aegis of The Osun Progressives (TOP) embarked on the protest in Osogbo, the state capital, from under the iconic Olaiya Flyover junction, where they were publicly mocking the governor and the leadership of the party over the loss of the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the state.
According to the state chairman of the party, Prince Gboyega Famodun Adegboyega, in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, this morning, the protest was shameful, callous, primitive, selfish, wicked, misplaced and inconsiderate for the Aregbesola supporters who glaringly worked against the success of Governor Oyetola at the polls to now be canvassing restructuring of the party through a sponsored protest.
In Famodun's words: "When I heard that the supporters of the immediate past governor of our state, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, were protesting, I thought my memory was playing me falsely as they cannot insulate themselves from whatever might be the current plight of the APC in Osun State.
"Assuming but not conceding that there are challenges within the party, protesters should be told that they lack the moral right to either suggest or effect any likely solution as it is on record that they massively and collectively worked against Oyetola, the APC governorship candidate in the just-concluded election in line with the series of their threat.
"One would have thought that the appropriate place for them to canvass for the restructuring of any party is Senator Ademola Adeleke's Ede country home whom they voted for with flaunted pri