The Interior Minister, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has never been at loggerheads with “his role model”-the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bola Tinubu; one of Aregbesola’s aides, Dr. Dipo Okeyomi, told First News on Tuesday.
Okeyomi, who is the leader of a Lagos-based group, Change Agent Foundation International (CAFI), said Aregbesola held Tinubu in high esteem and would not tinker with the idea of wresting power from him or undermining his influence in Southwest politics.
Okeyomi, who lost the APC chairmanship ticket of the Ojokoro Local Council Development Area to the incumbent, Mr Idowu Tijani, in the build-up to the last Lagos local government election, said the event should not be blamed on Tinubu, “as God’s time is the best.”
‘I particularly disagree with media reports that Asiwaju Tinubu and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola are at loggerheads.
“This is far from being so because as Progressives, we are working together to deliver dividends of democracy to the people.
“It is not also true that Tinubu denied me the Ojokoro ticket and if indeed he was giving out tickets and he did not give me, he can as well give me tomorrow,” he defended.
Okeyomi noted that both politicians were important to him in that, while he coordinates the Tinubu 2023 (T23), a group fronting for Tinubu’s presidential ambition, he is equally a security consultant to the Interior Ministry headed by Aregbesola.
“So you can see now that I am an insider and should know if there was ever any rift between these two great men; but I can confirm to you, there has never been any,” he claimed.
On former Osun Governor Aregbesola’s touted rift with his successor, Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, Okeyomi also said, “Currently, we are all working to realise a second term mandate for Governor Oyetola”.
“So, can someone who is working for you to get another term in office be against you?” He asked rhetorically.