The immediate past Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has reacted to the abolishment of some of his legacies by the Osun State House of Assembly, saying that the ruling People’s Democratic Party would know the consequences of its actions when seeking re-election in the next governorship election in the state.
The Assembly had repealed the Osun State Anthem, Crest, and Flag Law of 2012 which was introduced during the administration of Aregbesola.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Adewale Egbedun during plenary recently said the action was taken in compliance with the judgment of a Federal High Court of December 14, 2017 which was against the remaining of Osun State to ‘State of Osun.!’
Reacting to the reversal of the law, Aregbesola’s media aide, Sola Fasure, during a radio programme in Osogbo on Thursday, said the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke and the PDP was already defining its chances in the forthcoming gubernatorial poll.
He said the overturning of Aregbesola’s policies had begun since the government of former governor, Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress and that the PDP only completed it.
Fasure said he was not surprised that what Oyetola started was completed under an opposition party in Osun.
Fasure said the Oyetola-led administration also reversed the reclassification and single uniform introduced by Aregbesola.
He said the changes were made by Aregbesola’s administration in conformity with the regional plans of the South West and that the people would decide the fate of any government that plays politics with their identity.
According to him, “What PDP has done is an opposition, what the opposition does is to downplay your achievement and amplify your mistakes and if possible to maximally deconstruct you.
“But of course, doing that, they are also defining their own administration and let just see how that plays well for them when they are ready for re-election.”