Kolapo Alimi served because the Commissioner for Native Authorities and Chieftaincy Affairs within the administration of ex-governor Rauf Aregbesola. On this interview with BOLA BAMIGBOLA, the member of The Osun Progressives accused Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of making division within the ruling occasion in Osun State
What is your tackle the final APC ward congress in Osun State?
Let me begin my evaluation of the entire thing by saying that earlier than such an train, you need to purchase kinds and point out the publish you have an interest in. Our nationwide secretariat designated two banks for the sale of kinds. The committee that was to promote kinds, when it obtained to Osun, monitored it. The members went to the governor and so they met him. After the assembly, we anticipated them to go to the occasion secretariat and attend to whoever that wishes to pay for the kinds. After assembly the governor, the committee members had been held incommunicado.
The governor paid for all of the kinds with a single teller and he paid about N26.8m. He did that with the intent of stopping different members, who aren’t a part of the Ileri Oluwa group, from getting the kinds. After efforts to get the kinds from the committee despatched to Osun proved abortive, our personal group, The Osun Progressives, wrote a petition to Abuja. The nationwide secretariat advised us that we may purchase the kinds straight from it in Abuja. On our personal, we paid for kinds within the names of particular person contestants and the kinds had been offered to us.
There was additionally the congress committee that was to function INEC through the congress and conduct the congress. The primary main defect of the committee was that its members arrived within the night of the day previous the election. They went straight to the governor, as he is likely one of the leaders of the occasion within the state. Instantly after the courtesy go to of the governor, he organised his folks and referred to as them stakeholders and the committee held a gathering with them round 7.30pm. The next morning, the congress began.
The governor stated he needed consensus, however his personal which means of consensus was to power his will on others. These perceived as enemies of the governor weren’t invited to the stakeholders’ assembly. The congress committee was not supposed to carry its assembly with the stakeholders on the Authorities Home. It was supposed to utilize the occasion secretariat.
On the congress day, the committee members went to Ila, Iragbiji, the hometown of the governor, and Igbajo, the hometown of the occasion chairman. After visiting these locations, they concluded that the congress had been efficiently held. What the consensus means to them is that they’d simply learn out names. After the congress, we wrote a petition to the nationwide secretariat. We connected copies of our kinds and tellers. The response we obtained from Abuja is that copies of our petition and paperwork connected can be given to the appeals committee. What they termed as consensus in Osun is imposition.
What’s behind the plain disagreement between loyalists of Aregbesola and supporters of the incumbent governor?
In the event you can discuss on points and you’ll deal with the problems as they’re, you instantly change into an enemy of the current authorities. Some months in the past, some folks simply masterminded these in my ward to say that that they had suspended me with none allegations. Later in their very own knowledge, they reviewed it and so they found that possibly that they had not performed it correctly after which, they reversed the suspension. They did that one to me when ordinarily nobody amongst these concerned within the plot may put half of what I did to ensure that this authorities stands. We won’t enable Oyetola to proceed to garbage Aregbesola.
However how has Oyetola rubbished his predecessor?
If Aregbesola is so dangerous like the image they’re now portray, why would you keep for eight years below him (as Chief of Employees)? And now, you took all the advantages; you continue to use the place to get to the present one. If he (Oyetola) was not appointed Chief of Employees, do you assume he would come from nowhere and change into the governor right here?
Why will the reversal of some insurance policies change into a bone of rivalry, can’t insurance policies that aren’t working get replaced?
The governor has not defined to us how these insurance policies weren’t working. Underneath democracy, the one means you possibly can take a look at a coverage is by referendum or by election. All these insurance policies weren’t simply newly launched by ex-governor Rauf Aregbesola. They had been launched in 2011 and 2012. We had the governorship election in 2014 and we received. That was our argument that when it was sizzling, when the PDP was in energy, we nonetheless defeated the person that was utilizing these insurance policies to marketing campaign towards us with over 100,000 votes.
Within the final governorship election, I occurred to be one of many folks on the INEC. After we studied the outcomes, our governor occurred to be the one with the least residence benefit. When Adeleke led with about 22,000 votes in Ede, Oyetola led with 4,700 in his native authorities. So, whenever you now test the outcome very properly, you’ll know that Mr Governor is utilizing fallacious knowledge presently.
The folks which might be complaining in regards to the single uniform shouldn’t have their kids in these colleges. When Oyetola got here, he was utilizing the outcomes of the 2018 election, however a few of us, who analysed the election, advised him no. No referendum after the 2014 election, so the difficulty is that he’s utilizing a fallacious foundation. The insurance policies which have been there for seven years and which have been handed to folks at the moment are what you began crashing one after the opposite. On the change of identify for the faculties, we solely added authorities to the identify of the faculties. However all that has modified. He (Oyetola) has not launched something new, apart from reversal. No mega faculty has been constructed and no fashionable faculty has been constructed since this governor got here on board.
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