The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has suspended a former governor of the state, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola from the party.
The Osun APC State Working Committee in a letter allegedly submitted to the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Umar Ganduje, alleged that Aregbesola, the immediate past minister of Interior has been engaging in activities that were inimical to the progress and cohesion of the party in the state.
Earlier, the Director of Media and Information, of the APC in Osun State, Kola Olabisi, had in a statement issued on Sunday said that the party does not need the former governor to win back the governorship seat in the state in 2026.
Olabisi who was reacting to a prophesy credited to Primate Elijah Ayodele of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church who had claimed that APC would only win election in Osun State if it united with a faction of the party led by Mr. Aregbesola.
However, the APC Spokesman in the state dismissed Ayodele’s prophesy describing it as “political analysis disguised as prophecy.”
Olabisi’s statement further read:
“This is the same prophet who falsely predicted former President Goodluck Jonathan’s continued rule till 2019 and claimed that Atiku Abubakar would win the 2023 presidential election.
“We reject the Primate Ayodele’s fallacious prophecy which we consider to be in the realm of a figment of the imagination of the suspected mercantile prophet of which its prediction is aimed at causing unnecessary tension and friction within our party in Osun State.
“We would like to impress it on Prophet Ayodele and his discreet sponsors that our party which has been working assiduously round the clock to achieve victory in the said elections would continue to work for its victory without the enlistment of any metaphorical serpents who have become political pariahs and men of yesterday in the corridor of political power in the state because of their evil deeds unleashed on the party in the past.”