*Adeoti divides ACPP

Axe has finally been nailed on the root of Alliance for Collaborating Political Parties (ACPP) as the factional opposition political parties in Osun State are on the verge of total collapse.

But some members of the group are putting the blame on the door step of ACPP Vice-Chairman who is also the Action Congress (AC) Chairman in the state, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti.

Apart from the fact that they accused the AC boss of backstabbing some members of ACPP aggrieved individuals stated that Alhaji Adeoti was self-centered and greedy.

ACPP consists of a faction of Conference of National Political Parties (NCPP) that supported AC governorship candidate, Rauf Aregbesola.

Some of the political parties in the ACPP include AC, All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), Justice Party (JP), Labour Party (LP), All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and National Conscience Party (NCP).

ACPP can of worms blew open with the recent event in Ede North Local Government where majority of ANPP members decamped to AC.

Alhaji Sule Alao who incidentally is the Chairman of ACPP, kicked against the AC for luring members of his party despite risking his life for AC and Aregbesola.

Osun Mail however learnt that Alhaji Adeoti who welcomed the former ANPP members to his party was behind the crisis in ANPP and actually thwarted all effort for reconciliation between Alhaji Sule Alao and his ex-members.

It was gathered authoritatively that the AC governorship candidate tried his best in ensuring that both Alhaji Sule Alao and his estranged members find amicable solutions to their problem but Alhaji Adeoti stood as a stumbling block to this move.

“To be candid, I don’t know what Alhaji Adeoti wants to gain in backstabbing Alhaji Sule Alao who is the ACPP chairman while Adeoti is serving as his vice. Truly, Engineer Aregbesola tried to settle the internal wrangling in ANPP but all to no avail”, a member of the group told Osun Mail.

Osun Mail further gathered that the crisis in Osun chapter of ANPP was caused by the federal government’s appointment to Sule Alao as a Board member of one of the nation’s tertiary institution.

This development was confirmed by the ANPP State Chairman, “Well, I think the real problem is my appointment into the Yar’Adua’s Government of National Unity (GNU).

I am appointed as a Board member of tertiary institution under the GNU arrangement.

“But some of my members in ANPP accused me of selling out and that I got the appointment through Governor Oyinlola but that is far from the truth. My name was presented by my party to the FG and I was given this appointment.

“Of a fact, the slot was that of the South-West but when the letter came, my colleagues from other South-West states said my name should be forwarded and that is just it. Governor Oyinlola did not know anything about it.

“When Oyinlola saw me during the burial of Leo Awoyemi’s father, he was in his characteristic manner asking me if I will continue to be against his government and PDP now that I have been appointed into the Government of National Unity”, he stated.

Adeoti was a former Chairman of Iwo Local Government and a former Chairman of Alliance for Democracy (AD) and has been AC State Chairman since inception.