The OMOLUABI CAUCUS of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State has dissociated itself from any of its members who have been appointed into local government caretaker committee by Governor Ademola Adeleke.
In a statement by Lowo Adebiyi, former Chairman of the party in the state, the faction said whoever has been appointed into political offices by the Adeleke’s administration got such on individual connection and influence, and not on behalf of the Omoluabi Caucus.
“We restated unequivocally that at no time did the defunct TOP enter into any agreement with the PDP to work for it; which might warrant the erroneous compensation as being falsely spread by the mischief makers,” the statement said.
The statement went further, “But we know that the mischief makers have programmed their mind to continue smearing our caucus’s reputation as part of their various failed attempt to denigrate our patron, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.”
It added that the issue involved in the Osun APC crisis is based on fundamental wellbeing of the party and its purposeful usefulness for the sake of its establishment and pursuit, and not for any personal pursuit.
“We additionally note that our position has been for the essential need to rejuvenate, reorganise, refurbish and reenergise the structure of the party for achieving electoral victories. It is unfortunate that the self-centred and politically naive individuals and groups rejected our efforts with violence and onslaught.
“Incidentally and sadly, our rejected position has been scientifically vindicated with the embarrassing loss of more than 99% of the electoral positions and invariably loss of power in the state.”
It added that members of the Caucus are the elite and well rooted class of the progressives politics and good governance with clear and admirable evidence to show for it.
“No amount of villainous efforts by some individuals who have held the party-APC by the jugular will make us abandoned the platform.” It added
The group said it is conscious of the fact that that it isn’t all members of the caucus that share absolutely the selflessness embedded in the core value of the progressives politics and so, those who feel strongly about their individual interests couldn’t be stopped from pursuing such, hence the situation whereby some of them accepted to serve in the PDP government.
“Like every life circumstances that border on individual interests, we, the believers in the essence of progressives politics restate our commitment to the ideals of democratic values and good governance which is the pedestals on which the APC stands.
“We note that in a short-time, our long suffering stance and efforts for the ideal of the greater good for the greatest number of the people shall be justified and the rejected stone shall become the corner piece.
“We restate our commitment to the APC, the Progressives platform which we worked assiduously for its reinstatement into government in 2010, costing us sweat and blood along with other patriots after the manipulative debacle of 2003.”