Some influential leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State have been fingered in a grand plan aimed at doctoring the delegate list ahead of the party primaries scheduled to be held in in April in the state soon.
According to credible intelligence gathered from the party hierarchy in the state, the plan is being financed by a powerful force within the party that is bent on foisting their preferred choice on the state electorate.
Highly credible sources within the party further exposed that the preferred choice is a technocrat and a 'stranger' to party politics in the state.
To achieve this heinous and undemocratic plan, a huge war chest had been earmarked for the plan to succeed at all cost.
According to reliable sources within the party in the state, the recent election of councillors through what many perceived as imposition was done to test the political waters ahead of the governorship plan.
The success of the plan so far has bouyed the resolve of the hatchet politicians to impose their will on the party and the electorate.
Sources further hinted that the party's National Chairman, Chief Odigie Oyegun's known stance for strict adherence to internal democracy in APC has been weakened since the open letter written by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Mohammadu Buhari was made public.
The letter, according to credible party sources, has sent jitters down the spine of the party national leadership of APC; a situation that has now forced the Oyegun-led executive to compromise.
The leadership of the party in the state has therefore been mandated to fish-out names of likely delegates that may not support the technocrat being sponsored to win the governorship election in the state.
The question on the lips of APC members in the state is: What is now the fate of those who have been duly elected as party executives, who invariably would form the chunk of party delegates but who are not in the good books of the party leadership in the state?
As a result of this recent development, an uneasy calm now pervades the party hierarchy and membership across all the council areas in the state.