In what many are considering as desperate attempt by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to secure the party's governorship ticket for his nephew, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, all the party's aspirants have been planned to be individually invited to Lagos.
Information made available to the medium revealed that Asiwaju Tinubu arrived at this option in view of a recent independent opinion survey he contracted to a firm which confirmed that his choice was the least popular among all the aspirants in the rating by party members in the state.
According to a credible source within the party in the state, Tinubu had invited a specialist in public opinion survey from the United Kingdom to visit Osun and conduct a survey among party members and the electorate with a view to seeing his nephew's chances at the fast-approaching gubernatorial primaries and eventually, the election.
The reports of the findings by the opinion poll consultant was straight and down to earth, indicated that Oyetola, among all the other aspirants within the party, had the least of chances of succeeding the incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
According to the report, party members have complained that Oyetola represents the Lagos cabal that have been feeding fat on the state resources since the inauguration of the current administration in the state.
In addition, no APC members in the state could be said to have benefited from Oyetola since he was appointed the Chief of Staff to the Governor in 2011.
"He is still possibly the only political office holder in this country that has an 'Out of Bounds' sign at the entrance to his office.
"Now tell me, should such a person succeed in becoming the governor of the state, nobody would have access to him," an APC stalwart emphasised.
Faced with the possibility of an imminent defeat at the party's governorship primaries, Tinubu was reported to have therefore resolved to individually invite each of the aspirants to his Boudillon residence in Lagos, with a view to possibly buy them out of the race.
First on the list of those to be invited are the current Secretary to the Government of the State of Osun, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti; the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salaam among others.
To actualise this plan, the medium learnt that large sums of cash have been earmarked for any of the aspirants that agrees to step down for Tinubu's candidate, Oyetola before the governorship primaries.
How far Asiwaju Tinubu can go in his mission to buy-out the aspirants still remains a herculean task in view of the feelings among party members in the state, Oyetola's relationship with them is still at the lowest ebb.
"Oyetola is a stranger to Osun politics and cannot even boast of intimately knowing 100 of the APC members across the state.
"Is that one a governorship material? a partyman quizzed.

MadeInTokyo:


Tinubu will lose out again same way his candidates lost out in APC Governorship Primaries in Ondo and Ekiti State.

Nobody trusts Tinubu any longer

kikiki don't mind the yeye old man, who has being mortgaging the future of the south west because of his selfish interest. just like his candidate lost in osun senatorial seat, he will loose woefully. #2019 takeback