Odeyemi: Osun Home Based Politicians Are Selfish, Self-Serving

By Olabode Abolaji

A former Auditor of the Alliance for Democracy and the Action Congress of Nigeria in Osun State, Elder Kunle Odeyemi has described those in a faction of the All Progressives Congress tagged “Home Based” politicians as “Self Serving, Opportunists and Selfish Politicians.”

He said “They are members of the party that are selfish and position freaks who owe their allegiance to those who can spend money for them.”

Speaking on a radio programme in Osogbo on Monday, Odeyemi affirmed that Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s loyalty to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu gave birth to the statements alleging the imposition or favouritism of a candidate as his successor as being Tinubu’s ideology.

Odeyemi absolved Tinubu from dictating to Ogbeni Aregbesola as it is believed across board.

“Aregbesola is not like how people view him, the reason why He is called ajele is because he is trustworthy, He is someone who does not lie and someone that takes his own position”.

“The claims are because he is close to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. All what he is doing in terms of policies was contained his six-point integral action plan which Tinubu has no input in or order on.”

The Ijesa born politician explained that the ban imposed by the APC on intending governorship aspirants from the party in the next elections is as a result of the salary situation of the state and INEC guidelines with the assertion that the matter will soon be addressed.

The APC Leader in Osun State who did not allude to the claim by State Executives of the party that the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives is a “prodigal son”, noted that the crisis generated by his emergence and election “was as a result of the party’s position on the process which did not favour him.”

On the hues and cries generated by the Governor’s Cabinet nominees especially the Director General of the AD Campaign Organization for the 2016 Ondo State governorship elections, Elder Odeyemi maintained that “According to our party’s constitution, Leaders of the party in the grassroots from the 9 federal constituencies forward the names of 9 commissioner nominees out of 14 to the Governor in the first and those screened by the House of Assembly last week.”

“Our rules state that the Governor has the volition to appoint the rest and he is entitled to pick anybody he wishes could work with him. Bola Ilori’s case is not different. In Akande’s era, the chairman of OSBC board was a PDP leader from Oke-Ila Orangun, so this is not the first time somebody from another party or another state will be appointed as a cabinet member,” Odeyemi stressed.