We wish to draw the attention of the leadership of our great party the APC and Nigerians at large to the Illegality being perpetrated by the Governor of Osun and the Hon. Elegbeleye led Ward Congresses Committee
The press conference granted this evening by Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye has exposed to a great extent how Governor Gboyega Oyetola led Ilerioluwa faction of the APC have compromised members of the Ward Congress Committee sent from the national secretariat of the party to conduct party Ward congress in the state last Saturday.
We urge the leadership of the Party to thoroughly investigate what transpired here in Osun from Monday 26th July till Saturday 31st. The Osun Progressives (TOP) rejects the white lie told by Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, the Chairman of the Ward Congress Committee sent from the APC National Secretariat, in the bid to cover the scam and sacrilege against democracy that they called congress last Saturday.
1. *Consensus without Agreement* : Hon. Elegbeleye led Committee lied that they met stakeholders. We maintain that the Governor camped the Commitee in the Government House preventing them from from ley stakeholders of the party. Our question is, how do you reach consensus without engaging groups containing, The current Secretary of the Party, The former Chairman of the Party , the former Speaker of the State and many more.
2. *Screening of Applicant 8,000 nominees on 2 hours* : Hon Elegbeleye led Commitee lied that they screened participants. We have it on record and with proof that the committee arrived Osun around 6pm on Friday evening. *When and how could they have physically screened over 8000 applicants*
3. Hon. Elegbeleye will do well to tell the whole world and produce the list of those who supervised the Congress in each of the 332 wards other than the Governor’s group, IleriOluwa who were harassing and intimidating hapless party members in most wards where elections were held.
4. It is intriguing that Elegbeleye supervised a sensitive assignment like the holding of Ward Congress without seeing or talking to the State Party Secretary who is the custodian of party documents and claimed that he had successful assignment.
5. It is surprising that Elegbeleye who on arrival in Osogbo met with only Governor Gboyega Oyetola and his loyalists inside the cosy atmosphere of the Government House and stayed the night in the 3 star Hotel in company of the infamous Senator Omisore and others would think rational human beings will listen to the scandalous lie he told at a structured press conference this evening.
6. May we use this opportunity to tell the men of integrity running the party in Abuja to reject whatever fake report brought to them by Elegbeleye who obviously abandoned the assignment he was sent to do and colluded with Governor Oyetola and his group, IleriOluwa, probably on account of some lucre changing hands to do evil in the name conducting ward Congress.
7. We have proof and record of the many Illegality the Governor has resorted to, in partnership with Hon Elegbeleye to deny thousands of grassroot politician there right to pick their representatives.
8. Osun is a Bastilmof Progressive Politics and our leaders left the Legacy of a united and wining Party. Governor Oyetola is diving and destroying that Legacy with great implications for the Party at the State and National level. We urge leadership to fairly intervene.
Adelowo Adebiyi
Chairman, TOP
