By David Onimisi Lawani
The Chairman of Osun Progressives (TOP) Adelowo Adebiyi has accused the Governor of State of Osun, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, and Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye led Ward Congress Committee, APC, in perpetuating criminality and Illegality in the state.

In a press statement made available to pressmen, the group said Gbenga Elegbeleye has exposed to a great extent how Governor Gboyega Oyetola led the Ilerioluwa faction of the APC have compromised members of the Ward Congress Committee sent from the national secretariat of the party to conduct party Ward congress in the state last Saturday.

It noted that the body rejects the white lie told by Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, the Chairman of the Ward Congress Committee sent from the APC National Secretariat, in a bid to cover the scam and sacrilege against democracy that they called congress last Saturday.

According to the statement: ” It is said that the representatives of the highly referred and reputable National Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC will descend so low to tell a bare-faced lie to cover the illegality they called Ward Congress”.

“Elegbeleye said that it was only those who obtained forms that were screened and had congress conducted for and we say it is a white lie which stands all logics on its head.

“May it please Elegbeleye to tell the whole world where, when and who conducted the screening for 35 persons in each of the 30 Local Governments and one Area Office?”, he noted.

He said it will be necessary for Elegbeleye to tell the world, how he managed to screen the number of contestants running to several thousand when his committee arrived in Osogbo on Friday evening with the congress commencing in the morning of Saturday, July 31, 2021. What a liar!

“Elegbeleye will do well to tell the whole world and produce the list of those who supervised the Congress in each of the 332 wards other than the Governor’s group, IleriOluwa who were harassing and intimidating hapless party members in most wards where elections were held.

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“It is intriguing that Elegbeleye supervised a sensitive assignment like the holding of Ward Congress without seeing or talking to the State Party Secretary who is the custodian of party documents and claimed that he had a successful assignment.

“It is surprising that Elegbeleye who on arrival in Osogbo met with only Governor Gboyega Oyetola and his loyalists inside the cozy atmosphere of the Government House and stayed the night in the 3-star Hotel in the company of Senator Omisore and others would think rational human beings will listen to the scandalous lie he told at a structured press conference this evening.

“The press conference aimed at changing the well-known iniquity committed last Saturday against democratic norms came dead on arrival and we tell him we are no fools that he may stupidly think we are.

” May we use this opportunity to tell the men of integrity running the party in Abuja to reject whatever fake report brought to them by Elegbeleye who abandoned the assignment he was sent to do and colluded with Governor Oyetola and his group, IleriOluwa, probably on account of some lucre changing hands to do evil in the name conducting ward Congress”, he added.

He said Elegbeleye did more damage to the fragile image of the party than he met it with his mischievous misconduct of the Saturday ward congress and note that it is not in the party’s interest that he has acted.