APC Faults Oyinlola on Allegation That Presidency Putting Pressure on Gov Adeleke

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola’s submission that the Presidency has been putting pressure on the incumbent Governor Ademola Adeleke to defect to the APC.

Oyinlola had stated during an interview on Adeleke once disclosed to him that he was facing pressure from the presidency to the extent that, at a time, he had to break down in tears.

This position was however at variance with witnessed development in the party whereby all the entreaties of the governor to defect to APC met a brick wall.

The statement credited to Adeleke as espoused by Oyinlola was indicative of the fact that Adeleke was brazenly telling lies in order to curry unmerited sympathy from him.

In a statement by Osun State APC Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, he noted that, “It was in the public domain how Adeleke was moving from pillar to post in order to join our party without an iota of luck.”

“We challenge Governor Adeleke to disclose the identities  of the faceless entities that have been putting pressure on him to defect to the APC which led  him to have graduated from the dancing governor to the weeping governor in the presence of the former Governor Oyinlola as the latter recalled during the television interview,” the APC stated.

The excuse that some people have been putting pressure on the governors to defect to the APC as a mere fabrication as there has not been any report of the coercion of any governor to defect to the APC from any quarters, the ruling party stated.