Famodun Lambasts Diekola Over Radio Comment, Says His Integrity Compromised

Chairman of  All Progressives Congress in Osun state, Prince Gboyega Famodun has declared that the Chieftain of the party, Alhaji Fatai Diekola has seriously compromised his own integrity by admitting to be instrumental to APC losing Osun West Senatorial seat to the PDP.

Alhaji Fatai Diekola

Famodun was reacting to Diekola’s comment on a radio programme where he alleged that some cabals in the kitchen cabinet of Governor Rauf Aregbesola are influencing the Governor to taking wrong decisions which is affecting the party.

Recalls that the Osogbo born politician had on a political programme, Oro Oselu on Rave fm in Osogbo on Monday stated that cabals have also succeeded in ensuring that their will prevails even if anyone outside their camp in the party is not satisfied.

Diekola further alleged that these individuals have shielded Aregbesola from the truth, leaving him to disregard the opinion of juggernauts that have the real truth to say.

The APC chieftan also boasted that he was committed to helping the Adeleke brother (Ademola), who had defected to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because (he) Diekola and others he did not mention, wanted to secure the late Adeleke’s legacy.

But in his reaction, Osun APC Chairman, Prince Gboyega Famodun said ‘Alhaji Fatai Oyedele Diekola who claimed to be a leader of the APC in the state has seriously compromised his own integrity by admitting to be instrumental to APC losing Osun West Senatorial seat to the PDP.

If that is not betrayal arising from deep seated disloyalty what is it?’, Prince Famodun asked.

According to the APC chairman, Diekola in that radio programme, exposed himself and his co-travellers that their inability to influence the governor’s decision to favour their own ambitions was why he sabotaged the APC.

“Once you have openly admitted to sabotaging your own party’, Prince Famodun stated, ‘you cannot, in good conscience, still claim to be a member of that same party.

“In the circumstance, it will be patently dishonourable for Diekola to continue to claim that he is still in APC.

“He doesn’t need the party to tell him to fall out’, the APC  Chairman told Diekola.

Famodun further stated that, “the party was aware that the question of succession was making a few over-ambitious party men insistent on having one of  their own succeed Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

“In the process, desperation has set in for some who are prepared to sabotage the party, even if it resorted in them cutting their nose to spite their face.

“It is a pity that some politicians who one would have thought were matured enough to know better, still exhibit culpable ignorance on this question of succession, Prince Famodun argued, stating categorically that ‘nobody can force the governor to be uninterested in who succeed him.

“That’s the grave mistake these saboteurs are making’, the APC chairman concluded.