Aregbesola Is Not Part Of Ondo Fetish Plot – Osun ACN

The State of Osun Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the allegation levelled against Governor Rauf Aregbesola by the Olusegun Mimiko Campaign Organisation of the ruling Labour Party (LP) in Ondo State, as “falling behind the expected standard of intelligence and professional proficiency”.

In a statement signed by Osun ACN Director of Research, Publicity and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, the party also described the allegation that Aregbesola was behind a plan to plant fetish substances in Ondo State towns as “outright false propaganda”.

Spokesman of the Mimiko Campaign Organisation, Kolawole Olabisi, alleged that the ACN had sent a purported Muslim cleric to Ondo State “to carry out several nocturnal sacrifices in Ondo, Owo, Ikere, Akure and Okitipupa, with a view to spiritually turning the hearts of the people of the state against Governor Mimiko”.

He further alleged that “the fetish sacrifices, for which the cleric had been paid a whopping N25 million, are to be carried out on or before September 10”.

The Ondo State governorship election is billed for October 20.
ACN candidate, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has emerged the favourite in the race.

The Osun ACN noted that the allegations against Aregbesola are false propaganda.
The statement reads: “Everybody in Ondo State knows that the desperate candidate, who is running helter skelter to save his job, is Governor Mimiko himself. He has a notorious antecedent for playing outside the rules of the game and blackmailing his opponents.

“Aregbesola’s interest in Ondo State does not have a tinge of desperation and he, therefore, has no need whatsoever to engage anyone in fetish deals to obstruct or destroy the lives of the same people the ACN wants to liberate from Mimiko’s misrule in Ondo State.

“It is a great pity indeed that Mr Olabisi is latching on to a discredited allegation from Aregbesola’s opponents in Osun State, which falsely accused the governor of secessionist tendency to tag him both as a trouble maker and an Islamic zealot.

“Mimiko’s troubles in Ondo State are entirely his own making; if his job is threatened today, it is only the people of Ondo State who will determine his fate. To think that somebody from elsewhere can use fetish means to make Ondo people behave irregularly at the polls is the hallucination of a nitwit.

“If Mimiko had done well, his campaign organisation would have nothing to fear, but would simply go about demonstrating the ‘good work’ of the governor, which would be enough to convince the people.

“So, if Ogbeni Aregbesola poses any threat at all, it would be because Mimiko’s misrule has made him vulnerable.

“At least, Mr Olabisi owes the people of Ondo State respect for their intelligence to know who deserves their votes and who does not.

“The silly threat to respond robustly to a purported assault from Ogbeni Aregbesola is unbecoming of a civilised political operator.