Coalition: APC’s deceit, hypocrisy and Aregbesola’s alleged betrayal of Tinubu 

The events of last Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital where great Nigerians came together to offer the country a viable alternative to the rudderless Bola Tinubu led government has continued to generate ripples across the land.

Being of epochal proportion, especially in the history of Nigeria, the unveiling of the African Democratic Congress, ADC by various political gladiators has continued to generate comments.

The comments have both been positive and negative in almost equal measure considering where one stands in the emerging political equation in the build up to the forthcoming 2027 general election.

To many Nigerians who yearn for genuine change, the event was a welcome development owing to the fact that it will not only provide a viable alternative to the current regime, it would also be the platform for a peaceful change of government.

To those in government, it is a bad development considering the fact that the ruling All Progressives Congress APC led government had been working to emasculate opposing and dissenting opinions.

It is no longer news that the Bola Tinubu led government had been working assiduously to destroy the various opposition parties more than engaging in active governance.

Therefore, last Monday’s event has continued to be the game changer which is trying to change the political dynamics ahead of the 2027 poll.

It is however unfortunate to note that rather than reacting to the development in a decent and civil manner, members of the APC within and outside government have opted to engage in trading insults and name calling.

In their panic mode, they have continued to drag the leading lights of the ADC in a manner that suggests that they are in their panic mode considering that Nigerians have continued to express happiness to the resurgence of the ADC.

One name that has continued to be on the lips of these elements is that of the National Secretary of the ADC, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

To these individuals, Aregbesola who is the immediate past Minister of the Interior has betrayed their God, President Tinubu whom many of them believe wrongfully of being infallible.

Aregbesola’s decision to team up with the likes of Atiku Abubakar, Nasir el-Rufai, Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi is a sacrilege which can be equated to desecrating their warped progressive temple.

In their quest to sound reasonable and logical, they have shouting up to the mountain tops telling whoever tries to listen that President Tinubu brought Aregbesola up not only politically but in all ramifications.

However their attempt to sound logical, they have unwittingly given themselves away as a bunch of hypocrites and liars because they have continued to suppress or ignore facts in their warped postulations with regards to the kind of relationship that existed between the two.

In doing this, they have insisted that President Tinubu is the good guy while Ogbeni Aregbesola is the Judas who is stabbing his boss at the back.

A cursory look at the relationship between the two gladiators would reveal that many of the assertions being peddled are very untrue.

While one must concede that the relationship between the two personalities while like that of a mentor and mentee, it was somewhat built on mutual trust and shared respect and not that of master and servant as they are making Nigerians to believe.

No doubt, they both gained from each other while the political association between them lasted.

While President Tinubu might have provided the compass for successful political trajectory that the progressive bloc in the South West eventually turned out to be for the two, Aregbesola was indeed the field commander in many of the political struggles that they waged.

So therefore, many of the political ideas President Tinubu had in the past would have amount to nothing if the likes of Rauf Aregbesola were not there to carry them out

It must be noted that the division that necessitated the drifting of the former Minister away from his boss would not have occurred if the right steps and the not the wrong ones had been taken.

It is normal for disagreements to occur in relationships, efforts must always be geared towards resolving such misgivings in the overall interest of the collective whole but this was not the case.

The final straw that eventually broke was the expulsion of the former minister from the APC without recourse to laid down procedures and rules of party for carrying out such action.

It is said that nature abhors vacuum, since he was shown the way out of the APC, it is only logical that Aregbesola will naturally find accommodation somewhere else which he has done.

If by taking this decision, the Ijesa born politician has committed some form of hara-kiri in the eyes of his traducers who still believe that he has to worship their god who can do no wrong, so be it.

For now, members of the APC who are significantly pained by this decision would have to find a way or means to live with it.

Perhaps, these elements should look beyond the Aregbesola in ADC frenzy and look at how their party win win reelection come 2027, a possibility that is gradually fading away by the day.

From all indications, Aregbesola’s association has become a loss to them and a bonus to the ADC and so it shall continue to be.