Osun 2022: Gun shot as Aregbesola moves against Oyetola, endorses Adeoti 

Mouthpiece NGR reports that there was sporadic gunshots in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Monday as the immediate past Governor, Rauf Aregbesola visited the State.

During the tension-soaked visit, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, declared support for former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti as next governor of the state.

The former governor of Osun State, said the present administration has deviated solely from the true tenets of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Aregbesola disclosed this on Monday in Ijebu Ijesa while addressing party faithful and stakeholders in the state ahead of the party’s primaries.

Adeoti, who was the former Governorship Candidate of the ADP in the 2018 election is TOP candidate for the APC primary scheduled for Saturday, February 19, 2022.

Following the development, a group under the auspices of OSRA has accused Aregbesola of causing chaos in Osun state ahead of the primaries. 

The group accused the Minister of abuse of power and naked use of armed personnel to intimidate and maim innocent citizens of the State.

In a statement signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the group respectively, Saheed Bakare and Lanre Akeju, OSRA, the group recalled that it had on January 14, this year raised the alarm over plots by Aregbesola to cause mayhem in the State.

According to the group, what happened in the State on Monday where armed personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, were seen in broad daylight shooting sporadically at passers-by as if Osun was in a state war, was a vindication of its earlier position exactly a month ago.

The statement read in part “Our former Governor has been trying to create chaos in the State. But he will fail because we are witnesses to a gale of endorsements for Oyetola’s candidature from the West to Central and to East. These endorsements are spontaneous and we believe it is the reflection of the reality on the ground.

“We are aware that all those issues that reduced APC’s popularity and made it struggle to win the governorship in the build-up to the 2018 governorship poll have all been addressed by Oyetola and have endeared the party to the people once more.

“From abolition of half salary to reversal of single uniform and revert to old names of the various schools among others, Oyetola has won the hearts of the people.

“Oyetola cannot be faulted on the issue of performance and the popular and acceptable saying is that ‘ you don’t change a winning team.’ Aregbesola should be advised to give peace a chance,” the group said.