THE crisis in the South west chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, took another turn after the Ekiti State chapter flayed Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State over his recent visit and commendation of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State.
The assertion of the Ekiti State chapter of the party was immediately rebuffed by the Osun State chapter which lampooned the Ekiti State chapter for not recognising the political maturity displayed by Ogbeni Aregbseola in his visit to Governor Fayose, weekend.
The war of words was not helped by claims that the two chapters were acting as proxies for larger interests in the party in the Southwest.
Aregbesola, a close ally of APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, according to sources, was perceived to have hurt the interests of former Governor Kayode Fayemi, who controls the Ekiti State chapter of the APC when he visited Fayose and praised the Ekiti State governor.
Fayose, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was commended by Aregbesola for being an “ omoluabi ” and a hardworking governor, who had turned around the fortunes of Ekiti State in terms of infrastructure.
Political stakeholders also made insinuations that the Tinubu camp was, by the visit, trying to pay Fayemi back for his alleged support for the emergence of Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the Ondo State governorship candidate of the party against the perceived interest of Asiwaju Tinubu.
