Osun: APC members in Irepodun reiterate support for Oyetola

Members of the All Progressives Congress in Ilobu and Erin-Osun, Irepodun local government area of Osun State have reiterated their supports to the second term ambition of Governor Gboyega Oyetola.

The party members, who trooped out in the two communities on Thursday, said they remain solidly behind the Governor, calling on Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Lasun Yusuff to “forget” about his ambition.

Our Correspondent who witnessed the mini rally held concurrently at the two communities gathered that they party faithful in Erin-Osun converged at the market square before they moved to the party secretariat at Oke-Ila.

At the party secretariat, the Chairman of Irepodun South LCDA, Hon. Adekunle Oloyede moved the motion for endorsement of Oyetola for second term and it was seconded by the legal adviser of APC in the Erin-Osun, Mr Jimoh Waheed.

They said the achievements of Oyetola-led APC administration in the State are reasons behind their endorsement.

Speaking after the motion, Oloyede said the party in Irepodun is solidly behind the Governor. He said Oyetola’s has done wonderfully in the areas of infrastructure, healthcare, education and welfare of residents.

“We’re here to show our solidarity with Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola for another term of office. The Governor has been fantastic since he assumed office. As you can see here, all the party organs are here to show solidarity with the Governor.”

In his address, Special Adviser to Oyetola on Environment and Sanitation, Rufus Oyegbile said the party members had earlier passed a vote of confidence in the Governor to continue his good works, having painstakingly assessed his modest achievements in the last three years.

Oyegbile noted that members of the party across wards in the two local government areas had come out boldly to pronounce their choice of Governor Oyetola for second term.

He said the decision was to ensure the continuity and consolidation of good governance which the Governor had successfully sustained in the State.

The former Irepodun Local Government Chairman called on the people of the Councils to discountenance whatever was said by the former Deputy Speaker who he described as a demoralised politician.

According to him, the declaration of the former Deputy Speaker Lasun Yussuff as a sympathiser of a fraction of the party called “The Osun Progressives” was a ‘confused drama directed by a confusionist with detailed cast.

“As you can see, this is not a crowd of passersby but an assembly of genuine party loyalists whose decision was to ensure the re-election of Governor Oyetola come July 16, 2022.

“Today’s outing is to tell the people of the State in general and the two Councils in particular that we are for Oyetola and his re-election. We are not for whatever anyone says or may say, Oyetola is our candidate and no going back on this.

“I must say that the recent political jamboree dramatised by the former Deputy Speaker, Lasun Yussuff, was just a premeditated distraction that holds no water. If he continues doing that till next year, it will change nothing because we are determined to ensure the re-election of Governor Oyetola.

“All we need from you (party supporters) is to continue to hold firmly the pillars of the party from units to wards, from wards to locals and from locals to state. With this, no amount of political gimmicks and mischief can pull down the ordained work of God,” he added.

Speaking in turns, the Chairman, Irepodun South LCDA, Hon. Adekunle Oloyede; Chairman Orolu Local Government, Hon. Adekunle Benson; former Chairman, Irepodun Local Government, Hon. Ibrahim Taiwo and Hon. Akeem Ademola appealed to the party loyalists to remain united and work in unison for the success of the party.

Ademola said “it’s surprising that Lasun who worked against the party in 2018 can now be thinking of contesting under the same party. As far as we’re concerned in APC in Ilobu, we’re solidly behind Oyetola and nothing can change that.”