As count down to 2018 governorship election in Osun State draw near, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition, Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) have engaged themselves in war of words over who succeeds Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

While the opposition, PDP said in a statement issued and signed by the Chairman of the PDP caretaker Committee, Chief Sarafadeen Ishola threatened to unseat the ruling APC next year eledction, and that the later has started jittery about the progress the party has made within the shortest time, the ruling party replied that the Ishola’s statement is mere silly talk that is untrue and unattainable.

Sarafa Ishola at a meeting held in Osogbo said that APC is already smelling imminent defeat in the next year’s governorship election saying that the party is conscious of the fact that its victory in the last Senatorial bye-election in Osun West Senatorial District was a result of concerted efforts by leaders and stakeholders who all agreed to work together in the interest of the oppressed and suffering masses of the state. Ishola described the reactions of the APC spokesman as “an outburst of a drowning sailor who would ordinarily want to hold on to every flimsy straw with the hope of survival. There is however no hope for the APC surviving this coming Electoral hurricane because the people of Osun state are ready to change this ineffectual government come 2018”

He described the stakeholders meeting of the party which held last week as a huge success in view of the attendance of top leaders of the party and their resolve to work together towards putting in place necessary party structures that will serve as rallying point for all members in the 332 wards of the state.

But the APC in a swift reaction challenged the PDP to immediately stop its nasty criticism of the APC government and start to articulate its own alternative agenda of what that party will do differently for the people of the state.

“We challenge these loud-mouthed and weak critics of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s projects to tell us at least what the PDP will do better (and how) on education, youth employment and social security for a start’, the APC said in a statement over the weekend.

The party’s director of publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi said in a statement that the ‘PDP should tell the people of Osun what policy thrust ‘it has in plan to substitute what Aregbesola has done for students, teachers and educational infrastructure in the last seven years.


According to him, “for over seven years now, the PDP has been shouting that it will destroy all Aregbesola’s projects. The people of Osun deserve to know, what the PDP will replace the whole infrastructure on ground already, with.

‘It’s cheap and indolent to keep criticizing someone when you cannot provide an alternative, so that the world can assess whether or not the alternative on offer is worth the effort to consider or reject outright,” the APC said.

‘Show your sincerity and ability to think outside the box like our unusual governor, or if you can’t, then keep quiet,’ the APC challenged the PDP, adding that, ‘he who criticizes without providing an alternative is an opportunist who has nothing to offer and should not be taken seriously.

‘If PDP wants the people of Osun to take their party seriously, let them tell us what they will do differently, and how they will fund their own project.

‘Tell the citizens of Osun, whether or not you will break down the schools Aregbesola built. Say it loud and clear whether or not you will redesign, uproot and reconstruct the roads and bridges; destroy and rebuild Nelson Mandela Freedom Park; go around the state of Osun and urge the people to pile up dirt in the streets in their environment.

‘Tell us your alternative plan to stop flooding different from how Aregbesola did it. Are you going to now stop feeding children at schools in the state