APC leaders pleaded for my return – Osoba

Former Governor Olusegun Osoba on
Tuesday said the public misconstrued
what happened at his Bourdilon home,
Ikoyi – Lagos, last Sunday when the
leaders of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) in the Southwest met.
In attendance at the meeting included
the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Governor of Oyo
State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi; Governor
of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode
who was represented by his deputy, Dr.
Mrs. Oluranti Adebule and former
Governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Niyi
Adebayo.
Others are former interim National
Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande;
APC National Vice Chairman, South
West, Chief Pius Akinyelure and Senator
Gbenga Obadara and ex – Deputy
Governor, Prince Segun Adesegun.
But Governor Ibikunle Amosun, his
Deputy, Princess Yetunde Onanuga and
leaders of the Party in Ogun State were
visibly absent and no explanation given
for their absence.
Osoba who broke his silence on the
matter, said while people kept saying
that he hosted the Southwest leaders of
APC in his home since the news of the
meeting broke; the truth of the matter
was that it was them that came to plead
with him to return to the APC family.
The Akirogun of Egbaland who made
this known in his remarks at the public
presentation of the book: Alake of
Egbaland, in Abeokuta, the Ogun state
capital, and vaguely blamed the press
for the public misconception.
The 127 page book bearing Five
chapters, was authored by the foremost
Egba politician and industrialist, Chief
Alani Bankole, popularly called
Caterpillar and was reviewed by the
pioneer Vice – Chancellor of Tai Solarin
University of Education, Ijagun, Prof.
Olukayode Oyesiku.
Osoba noted that the pleading by the
APC leaders in Yorubaland for him to
return to the progressive fold have been
on and still continued, adding that two
prominent traditional rulers had also
lend their voices in that direction.
The ex – governor said the occasion of
the book launch was not a time for
political speech making, adding that it is
better left for a later date in future.
And in a brief encounter with the press
shortly after launching the book with
half a million naira, Osoba said he is a
founding member of APC and would
remain a progressive politician till the
end of his sojourn on earth.