Osun 2018: We’ll Sack APC, Says PDP, You’re A Joker, Replies APC

The race for Osun 2018 Gubernatorial Election is beginning to gather momentum, the two major political parties, All Progressive Congress (APC)  and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state have started trading words over who would occupy the government house, come 2018.

The mediator in Osun PDP crises, Sarafa Tunji Ishola, said the PDP is planning to sack APC from office in 2018.

Sarafa stated this in Osogbo on Tuesday. He said his mediating committee was in Osun to reposition PDP with determination to sack the APC from government come 2018 governorship poll.

He said “we are on the rescue mission and we determined to rescue the state from the claws of poverty and frustration allegedly foisted by Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration.

“With the genuine cooperation and spirit of unity displayed by all the members of the party in Osun despite seeming differences among the major stakeholders, stronger pedestal had been put in place to dislodge the APC in the forthcoming gubernatorial poll.”

In a statement by Osun APC’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, the party described Mr Sarafa’s speech as “silly”.

Oyatomi said “We wouldn’t blame him much because he is ignorant of Osun politics.

“Secondly, the exercise of bringing the divided PDP together, which he claimed to have succeeded in, doesn’t add up.

The division within the PDP in Osun is skin-deep and multifaceted, and it’s entirely driven by the reckless ambition of one man against the run of affairs to become governor at all cost.

“Besides, the economic problem in the state of Osun is nationwide and not peculiar to Osun. So, if the PDP thinks it can capitalise on the economic downturn, it’s just fooling itself, because essentially that party (PDP), created the problem with its kleptocratic rule that wrecked the Nigerian economy between 1999 and 2015, and put the country in recession.

“They stole the country blind and the monumental stealing made it impossible for us to withstand the fall in oil prices.

“The Aregbesola-led APC government did not steal Osun’s money, neither was it reckless. All over the state, there is evidence of what Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and the APC government did with Osun’s money that has never been seen or done in the state, since it was created.

“Sarafa should be told he is ignorant, that if the PDP could not win Osun in 2014 with the entire resources of the Federal Government at its disposal, there’s no magic that will make it to win the state now, because then, the PDP told all sorts of criminal lies against the APC, did what was demonically possible to disparage the person of the Governor, but Osun people were not swayed by the lies and the smear campaign, so there’s no way they will be accepted now.

“It’s a pity that because the PDP in Osun is blind, they have equally made Sarafa, the mediator, blind. He came to Osun but could not see, he could not feel and he could not hear what’s evidently going on in Osun.”

However, as the next guber election draws near. one thing is clear: Osun electorates seem wiser than before.