Index to Nigerian Newspapers

The internal crisis rocking the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has deepened and there is no resolution in sight before the national convention and governorship primary scheduled for February 2022. Ogbeni Rauf Aregesola, the immediate past governor of the state and Minister of Interior, has revealed that there are two factions in the state chapter at present, one chaired by Hon Razaq Salinsile and one chaired by Elder Lowo Adebiyi. Aregbesola's outburst has rubbished last year's intervention by the national leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Governor Bisi Akande. President Muhammadu Buhari must reconcile the political warlords. The feud between two gladiators, Oyetola's loyalists and those of Aregbesola, is worsening despite efforts by the national leadership of the party to reconcile them and place the party on the path of victory. Salinsile is heading the minister's faction of the executives while Prince Gboyega Famodun is heading the faction loyal to Oyetola. Both factions are bent on producing separate governorship candidates for the forthcoming governorship poll. A political group, 'Ileri Oluwa', is rooting and canvassing for the governor's re-election, while the pro-Aregbesola group, TOP, is doing everything possible to frustrate the incumbent's second term aspiration. A party source told The Guardian that the strategy is to repay Oyetola for how he rubbished his immediate predecessor by reversing most of his policies.