Aregbesola articulated his thoughts in Ilesa, Osun State, during an end-of-the-year thanksgiving organized by the Omoluabi Caucus, attended by numerous leaders of the group across the state.
A video capturing Aregbesola’s speech at the event was shared on Facebook by one Lekan Arogundade.
The ex-governor recounted his endeavors to ensure that the All Progressives Congress approached the 2022 governorship election as a united party, expressing frustration at the outcome.
Aregbesola detailed how, prior to the election where then-Governor Gboyega Oyetola of the APC lost to the Peoples Democratic Party’s Ademola Adeleke, he (Aregbesola) engaged with representatives of the APC 'overall leader' on the sharing of appointments.
However, Aregbesola revealed that the 'overall leader' of their party failed to fulfill the agreements, leading to his abstention from the 2022 Osun APC governorship campaign, prompted by the declaration from a leader of the campaign organization that those not invited need not bother to attend.
Speaking in Yoruba language, Aregbesola further said, “I have not said this before. On August 26, 2021, our overall leader told us to meet two of his representatives in Abuja.
“Thirty-one people from my group met with the representatives of our overall leader. The meeting started around 10 pm and ended at about 4 a.m. I was not part of the meeting. But they agreed that those pushed out of the party should be reintegrated.
“Those at the meeting also agreed that those in government then were more and because of that, in both appointive and elective posts that were still vacant, they should give our own side one-third while they take two-thirds.
“The representative of our overall boss was impressed. I told him whatever my people had told them, I agreed to it. But I gave them some conditions that I will not reveal now if they want me to come and campaign during the governorship election. But we never heard anything again about that agreement to date".
