Rauf Aregbesola, the interior minister, has taken down a mysterious post in which he responded to Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s loss in the Osun State governorship election on Saturday.
“This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men,” the former governor of Osun had written in a widely shared post on Sunday morning.
Sola Fasure, the media adviser to the interior minister, claimed in a statement that the deleted post was not authorized.
After making comments in February 2022 disparaging the APC presidential candidate and his political boss, Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Osun State, who was not present at the election, remained silent regarding developments in the state.
Ademola Adeleke received a majority of the votes cast in the governorship election in Osun State, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced in a broadcast by InsightnaijaTV on Sunday morning.
Adeleke’s triumph came almost four years after he narrowly lost his ambition to become the governor of Osun State.
Aregbesola previously declared that godfather politics and the enthronement of some politicians who regarded themselves as gods were no longer acceptable.
The former governor of Lagos State betrayed the minister despite the fact that he had earlier claimed to trust Tinubu.
Aregbesola, who served as governor of Osun State from 2010 to 2018, accused Tinubu and the previous governor of the state, Bisi Akande, of imposing Gboyega Oyetola on the populace against their wishes.
As an alternative, the minister urged the party’s supporters in Osun to back Moshood Adeoti, a former secretary to the state government who was later defeated in the primary election.
Later attempts by Aregbesola to make amends with Tinubu were unsuccessful.
Before the poll on Saturday, the Osun Progressives, an APC group led by the minister, declared that their members will stick with the party despite the conflict.
