4 News Ex-Osun Deputy Gov. Under Attack Over Comment On Reconciliation

IMMEDIATE past deputy governor of the State of Osun, Mr. Benedict Alabi, has come under heavy cri cism from members of the IleriOluwa camp of the

All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

Alabi had in an interview with an online media last week Monday declared that he was willing to lead a reconciliatory move to reunite aggrieved members of the party.

According to Alabi, the lingering internal crisis rocking the APC gave victory to the Peoples Democra c Party (PDP) in the July 16, 2022 governorship elec on.

Alabi said the only way to reclaim the state from the PDP is for all the facons in the APC to come together to form a united party.

The former deputy governor, however, said the party requires the service of a trusted individual to lead the reconcilia on move that will pacify the aggrieved members of the party.

He said he has the qualies to reconcile the aggrieved members of the party because he does not belong to any of the facons.

Alabi’s comment sparked reac ons from former governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s supporters who described the former deputy governor as a betrayer.

OSUN DEFENDER gathered that Alabi has been removed from all the WhatsApp pla orms of the IleriOluwa camp and has been disconnected from Oyetola’s structure.

Oyetola’s supporters have also taken to their various social media handle to a ack Alabi who they called out for allegedly backstabbing his boss, Oyetola.

Also, a former Minister of Police Affairs, Mr Jelili Adesiyan, ques oned Alabi’s loyalty to Oyetola who both ran a joint cket in 2018 and 2022.

Adesiyan who commented on a whstapp group, described Alabi’s statement as an act of disloyalty, saying prosperity will not be kind to him.

He said: “How can deputy governor says such? He is calling the rest of us who stood by the government in which he was the second in command a fool. In fact, his ac ons is worse than Aregbesola and his TOP supporters because we know where they are and we simply placed them there.”

“It is me he come out to say he is misquoted otherwise prosperity will not be kind to him”

•O fficials of the State Ministry of Works fixing one of the faulty streetlights at Ogo Oluwa Area of Osogbo