The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has raised a storm of protest over Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s visit to Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, in Ado Ekiti, during the weekend.

Governor Aregbesola visited Ado Ekiti on Saturday for the 20th Anniversary of Ekiti State where he delivered a lecture entitled, “The imperative of unity.”

At the event, Aregbesola complained and pointed out that the biting economic problem was such that in the whole of the South-West region, only Lagos State could stand on its own.

He went further to canvassed regional integration and cooperation as well as the revival of agriculture as some of the steps to ameliorate the situation.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) had however argued that the visit to Ekiti was a slight on the party and contempt for the party’s leadership in the state.

The APC also expressed worry that Aregbesola at the event described Fayose as omoluabi and a hardworking governor who had turned around the fortunes of Ekiti State in terms of infrastructure.

It also cited social media reports which quoted Aregbesola as saying that “Fayose is a reliable person” and that in spite of political differences, he and Fayose shared many things in common, and that “sooner than later, there will be realignment of forces.”

In a statement on Monday, the Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun stressed that the visit showed contempt into which the party and its leaders were held by the Osun State governor after Fayose had caused severe pains in the lives of their members, some of whom had been languishing in jail for about two years for the offences they did not commit.

Taiwo said, “Aregbesola’s visit to Fayose, praising him as ‘omoluabi’ and for the achievements by APC-led government is not alone embarrassing but also awful and shocking in the face of sustained attacks on APC members, some of whom are still languishing in jail for about two years over trumped-up charges by Fayose.

“It is shocking that Aregbesola as a governor and one of the leading lights in the APC in the South West and indeed the nation would be visiting Ekiti State without putting the leaders into confidence, more so on a visit to a man who once wished the President dead and had done unbelievable things both in Nigeria and abroad to bring Buhari’s government down.

“Worse still, Aregbesola was praising the man who will stop at nothing to bring APC-led Federal Government down after several years of failed attempts by the progressives to win the presidency of Nigeria.”

Olatunbosun also frowned on alleged misappropriation of APC’s authority with the Osun governor promising realignments of forces with Fayose “sooner than later”, saying such “unbridled” trading off of the APC in Ekiti State to Fayose would never stand in the face of the governor’s molestation of the APC members over the years.

“We find it most embarrassing and shocking that one of our leaders would be planning a re-alignment of forces with a governor that has made life a nightmare for our members, the same members that will participate in the said re-alignment that Aregbesola is talking about, without sparing a thought for members held in jail unjustly while other APC members are routinely attacked by Fayose’s men on the streets.

“We also find it spiteful that Aregbesola would sit with Fayose on this same programme where the latter berated Buhari to no end, including describing the President’s programmes as a theory that is compounding problems for Nigerians,” he said.

Warning that the state leaders would resist any attempt to draft the governor into any realignment with APC in the state and foist him on the party, Olatunbosun noted that Fayose had done enough damage to the integrity of Ekiti people.

He added that the time had come now for the real omoluabi in Ekiti to join forces to rebuild the ruins into which Fayose’s administration had left the state.

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Hmmm Realignment indeed... Instead of Fayose aligning with APC, he'll rather poach Aregbesola into PDP.


That guy no like Buhari at all...

Ekiti is made up of Osun and Ondo. Ekiti is a Satellite of Ondo and Osun States and it's from Ekiti State that the Yoruba Race opens up and spreads her Tentacles to Kwara and Kogi. A nice way for the Yorubas to have the best of both sides of all issues is to actually stand firmly on two legs. That's to say, our Yoruba Elders, Rulers and Governors should provide whatever it takes to allow unflinching and absolute cooperation between Ondo, Osun and Ekiti on the one hand, and between Lagos, Ogun and our bulldozer Oyo States on the other hand. This will guarantee corporate defense for the Yorubas in any Forum and at any front. To start with, it's good to have 3 APC States and 3 PDP States in Yoruba land. OEO vs OLO. What a blessing to counter Biafra, Fulani Herdsmen and Arabs religious intrusions.

What's the big deal there? Aren't they brothers? Cause they are in different political parties doesn't mean they won't see eye to eye naw

I don't trust the source

But unlike many people here, leaders in APC and PDP are not lifetime enemies, unless it's about election I don't think they scuttle, scuffle or pursue each other with knives, guns or insults



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