Osun: Aregbesola’s commissioner, other supporters consider defecting to PDP

Loyalists of former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, including Kolapo Alimi, a former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs and vocal critics of incumbent Governor Gboyega Oyetola, say they may be dumping the ruling party in the state for the Peoples Democratic Party.

This follows a division between Governor Oyetola and Aregbesola over the control of the All Progressives Congress structure in the state.

A video jingle circulated in the state revealed that a Alimi’s purported defection to the PDP was said to be slated for March 23 along with his supporters.

Reacting to the said video, Alimi, a vocal member of The Osun Progressives, TOP, said though the date mentioned in the jingle had lapsed, “leaving the APC is not impossible if we cannot resolve our differences with the governor’s group.

“The date fixed for my decamping to the PDP on the jingle was 23rd March, 2022; it has lapsed and is outdated.

“Although there is a plan to join the PDP, no date has been fixed. I don’t know anything about that jingle. I will make an official declaration if I am defecting.

“It is possible to decamp to the PDP because we have issues with Oyetola which everybody knows; so it is a possibility. If it gets to the level; why not? But as of today, I am still a member of the APC.”