Aregbesola alludes to Tinubu’s highhandedness in scathing critique

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has hinted at an overbearing attitude of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu as the cold war between the duo rages.

Aregbesola made this allusion on Tuesday when he addressed a crowd in Ijebu Ijesa, Osun State ahead of the party’s governorship primary.

Whilst the Minister did not explicity mention Tinubu’s name, he suggested that “this leader didn’t think good of us.

“We followed and served this leader with all our might. In fact, our loyalty to him had caused some people to start wondering if we were no longer Muslims.

“But we were with him and served him according to the admonition of our forefathers, who said when serving anyone, we should do so with sincerity and loyalty; that if you regard anyone as your principal, you must serve him wholeheartedly.

“Sadly, we didn’t know that while we wished him well, he didn’t think good of us.

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“However, because we placed him higher than where he ordinarily should be, he started to think he is our god.

“Unfortunately, for him, we had sworn to God that whoever compares himself to him, we’d beg Him to bring down such a fellow,” Aregbesola stated.

In the run-up to the APC primaries, Aregbesola endorsed the former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, as the next governor of the state.

Adeoti is one of the three persons vying for the APC governorship ticket in the July 16 election.

The other two politicians are Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun.

Aregbesola and Oyetola had been at loggerheads since the latter assumed office in 2018, but they had repeatedly denied reports of rift between them.

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