Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola has tackled the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, saying he has “turned himself into a God.”
The minister spoke in Oriade LGA of Osun on Monday.
Aregbesola said Tinubu was exalted “beyond his status and he turned himself to a god over us.”
Aregbesola was commissioner under Tinubu in Lagos, but their relationship has been frosty recently.
The relationship between the two politicians soured with Mai Mala Buni’s national caretaker committee recognition of Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s APC faction in Osun state.
Aregbesola did not visit the former governor in London when he went for treatment.
The minister who is backing Moshood Adeoti, a former Osun secretary to the state government (SSG), said “only God can terrify us, not man.”
He said, “We came back home to reposition our party to where it was meant to be because we followed the lead of our leader that we thought was a noble and reliable fellow. We followed him (Tinubu) dutifully with all sense of loyalty,” The Punch quoted him as saying.
“Some people even thought that we were no longer Muslims because of how we cooperated with him. We dealt with him without treachery but we never knew he planned evil for us.
“We exalted him beyond his status and he turned himself to a god over us and we had sworn to ridicule anyone who compared himself to God.
“When he (Tinubu) handed over the present governor to me around July of 2018, he (Tinubu) declared that he (Oyetola) will succeed me and continue my good works. That was what he told me. He knows he has not done so if he is listening now and he has failed to call my successor to order.”
The minister said Oyetola will be ousted from office for failing to stick to the plan that will make Osun prosperous.
“That was how it was in Lagos at the time; a governor derailed and the party members unseated him using the ballot boxes. As it was in Lagos yesterday, so shall it be in Osun today,” he said.
“What is good for the goose is also good for the gander.”
