Twenty-eight days to Osun State governorship election, a supremacy battle between two major blocs in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-West is not only threatening its chances in the poll, but its 2019 fortunes in the zone, Sunday Tribune has reliably learnt.

Counter allegations of anti-party activities have also been taken to Aso Rock, and senior presidency officials had reportedly intervened, though President Muhammadu Buhari had not personally sat with either of the two aggrieved camps.

A leader of a bloc, believed to have the ears of Abuja, told Sunday Tribune that the allegation of anti-party being thrown at his camp would not stick because the accusers began the anti-candidate project in some states of the zone.

Checks revealed that the camp loyal to a mainstream bloc had approached the presidency to complain about alleged anti-party against two APC governors, Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Yahaya Bello of Kogi State as well as APC Ekiti State governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

They were accused of supporting the candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Moshood Adeoti, against the party’s candidate, Gboyega Oyetola.

Adeoti was the Secretary to the State Government before he opted out of the ruling party, to become the ADP standard bearer.

He is allegedly receiving support from party heavyweights who are against the candidature of Oyetola, a relation to the party’s national leader, Bola Tinubu and the anointed of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State.

There was also an alleged plan for him to return to the ruling party, after winning the poll.

The main battle between the two major blocs within the party in the zone, is said to be situated in the plot for the control of the zonal structure ahead of the 2019 poll and beyond.

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The allegation of anti-party against the trio of Fayemi, Amosun, Bello and other party bigwigs from Lagos, Ondo states by the other camp at the presidency, was said to have been countered with the alleged past anti-party activities of the other side.

The other group was accused of supporting opposition candidates in recent Ondo and Ekiti governorship polls, which the party’s candidates won.

A senior party loyalist who currently supports Adeoti told Sunday Tribune that “what case could they have against the governors and Fayemi, when their leader here (name withheld) hasn’t congratulated Fayemi on his victory more than a month after the poll. They have been boasting that Fayemi hasn’t become governor yet and got lawyer for Segun Oni. As we speak, he (a party leader whose identity is being withheld) is not on speaking terms with Amosun. How do you reconcile their accusations with what they did in Ondo and Ekiti. We remain APC but will never support their candidate”.

Both blocs had reportedly made their case to the presidency, with Buhari’s final decision being awaited.

One of the groups, was said to have asked Abuja, to compel general zonal support for the party’s candidate.

Sunday Tribune learnt that in the bid to reinforce Oyetola’s chances, a recent returnee, Musiliu Obanikoro, had relocated to the state to help the party with campaigns and strategies.

A discomforting telephone call took place two nights back between the former Lagos PDP strongman and a former ally.

The Osun project is allegedly already robbing the former minister a lot of support at home, on his senatorial ambition.

An alleged plan to also get a particular national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) (name withheld) deployed for the Osun poll is also generating a lot of heat and debate within the political circle.

Leading candidates have vowed to resist the alleged planned deployment.

The controversial national commissioner was a state commissioner for the electoral body, before his elevation.

He is from the South-Western part of the country.

Sources within the system accused him of colluding with a certain former chief detail to a former governor, who owns a magnificent hotel in Lagos.

The former chief detail is accused of being the mastermind of a massive rigging plot by one of the leading political parties in the election.
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Matters arising

The battle of the Titans
Tinubu /Aregbesola VS Amosun/Fayemi /Akeredolu.
This Supremacy Battle started during the last Ondo state gubernatorial election that produced Akeredolu as the Governor. The anointed candidate of Tinubu narrowly lost to Akeredolu at the controversial APC primary election.
In the last gubernatorial election in Ekiti State it was rumored that Tinubu was supporting Engr Segun Oni against the candidacy of Fayemi at the APC primary.
Tinubu was said to be instrumental to the adoption of the Direct primary used in the recent APC primary that produced Oyetola. The Amosun /Fayemi /Akeredolu group was said to have thrown their support for the candidacy of the former SSG of Osun state, Alhaji Adeoti and they are ready to make sure he emerged by supporting him financially. Therefore, if the delegate system had been used for the primary, Amosun, Fayemi and Akeredolu were ready to provide the financial wherewithal to ensure Adeoti's victory.
The case being instituted by Segun Oni against the emergence of Fayemi at the Ekiti APC primary is said to have the backing of the tinubu/Aregbesola group. It is a case of the HAND OF ESAU, THE VOICE OF JACOB.
This battle of Supremacy has just begun and may eventually break the south west APC.

The battle of supremacy has be there and that does not stop the party from winning ondo and ekiti.
Osun is a work over.
Amosun and fayemi can not work for adeoti to win and tinubu can not work for dino and against bello.

All this kind of news is to give the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Bia-fra terrorist hope that PDP will get the 51% from Twitter vote.

An alleged plan to also get a particular national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) (name withheld) deployed for the Osun poll is also generating a lot of heat and debate within the political circle.

Leading candidates have vowed to resist the alleged planned deployment.

While they tell the masses not to sell their votes... this country is just dustbin.

Amosun, fayemi and That lunatic Bello can go and die inside the nearest lagoon


Oyetola All The Way

Politics of treachery & back stabbing. Meanwhile which investigative journalism is talking about name withheld

Any news where more than 50% of the actors involved are "anonymous", "unnamed", "confidential"....its a plot and should be regarded with contempt.

APC is a failed party

Ipob doing what it knows best, send out lots of misleading false informations hoping to cause dis harmony, lol
That BS doesnt work here in the SW

Wetin concern me

sticking my head to what doesn't concern me is suicidal. Let me leave trash for lasma