APC blasts Aregbesola over Aso Rock, Lagos takeover comment

The former governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, was in Lagos on Saturday to welcome Moshood Salvador, the leader of the Labour Party’s Conscience Forum, who formally led his members into the ADC fold in Lagos.

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, or APC, has criticized Aregbesola for his remarks that the opposition party will take over Aso Rock and Lagos State government in 2027.

In response to his claim, the Lagos APC, in a statement released on Sunday by its spokesperson, Seye Oladejo, bemoaned the fact that Aregbesola, a landlord in the ruling party, was now a tenant in a “mushroom opposition party.”

“Here is a man who was once a proud landlord in the progressive family, now reduced to a wandering tenant in a mushroom opposition party.

“From Lagos Commissioner to Osun Governor and then Minister, Aregbe ate, dined, and thrived on the APC table. Today, in a desperate bid for relevance, he is busy setting fire to the same house that made him. That, dear Nigerians, is political suicide of the highest order”, he said.

APC further stated that if the opposition ADC thinks the former governor “is the one to lead them to electoral glory, then they are preparing for a funeral, not a victory.

According to the party’s spokesperson, putting Aregbesola at the “front of a charge against APC is a recipe for failure”.

“Ogbeni Aregbesola’s rant is less a threat to APC and more a public obituary of his own political relevance. By turning his back on the progressive family that made him, he has written himself out of history and into the footnotes of infamy.

“If ADC insists on betting its future on a man dismantling his own legacy, then the only “takeover” awaiting them in 2027 will be a takeover by ridicule”, the statement added.