Politics
‘Tinubu refused to release Aregbesola to be my deputy’
Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, would have been Chief Bisi Akande’s deputy in Osun State after the impeachment of Otunba Iyiola Omisore if the then governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had not urged him to shelve the idea.
Akande, in his book, ‘My Participations’, narrated how he came across Aregbesola and wanted him first as his deputy and possible successor.
He said Mr. Ayo Afolabi and some of his colleagues introduced Aregbesola to him while he was serving as Commissioner for Works under Tinubu in Lagos, who pleaded with Akande to look elsewhere.
“He needed our support to host some of his guests from Lagos. So, we assigned a chalet to him at the Government House.
“I attended the ceremony as a mark of honour to him. I thought I should encourage him to link up with us in Osun.
“I was encouraging him but did not know how to say it. First, his background was not Osun.
“Second, a Commissioner for Works in Lagos controls a far bigger budget than the Governor of Osun State.
“Being a native of our state, he could be thinking of doing something different in future.
“So, I started introducing him to people and encouraging him to be part of us. That was how we linked up with Rauf Aregbesola,” Akande recalled.
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