{"id":351,"date":"2023-08-24T22:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T22:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omoluabiprogressives.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2024-06-08T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T15:27:37","slug":"aregbesola-launches-omoluabi-apc-caucus-restate-commitment-to-progressive-ideologies-in-osun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omoluabiprogressives.com\/aregbesola-launches-omoluabi-apc-caucus-restate-commitment-to-progressive-ideologies-in-osun\/","title":{"rendered":"Aregbesola Launches Omoluabi APC Caucus, Restate Commitment to Progressive Ideologies in Osun"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"351\" class=\"elementor elementor-351\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-afb1680 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"afb1680\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8d6e1a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a8d6e1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Aregbesola Launches Omoluabi APC Caucus, Restate Commitment to Progressive Ideologies in Osun<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e044228 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e044228\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The immediate past Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has restated his commitment to progressive ideals and the All Progressives Party, APC, in Osun State even as he stated that political parties are amalgamation of different interests and tendencies.<\/p><p>Ogbeni Aregbesola renewed his commitment to the party during the launch of Omoluabi Caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ilesa on Tuesday August 22, 2023.<\/p><p>Describing the Omoluabi Caucus as one of the many caucuses in the state, the former two term governor of Osun, noted that the caucus is not a faction of the party, but just a union of like-minds in the state.<\/p><p>\u201cThe Omoluabi Tendency is a caucus within the All Progressive Congress (APC), actually one of the caucuses in the state. We are not a faction. We are the genuine foundation members of the party and we have no intention of abandoning the ship of the party as it navigates the most turbulent waters. We are no sprinters, but long-distance runners and we will still be standing when all the fair-weathers have gone.<\/p><p>\u201cA political party is actually an agglomeration of interests and tendencies. Reading well from the United States where we borrowed the Presidential System, we can see that the Republican Party is made up of big businesses, nationalists, religious right and others. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, is composed of welfarists, labour unions, ethnic and sexual minorities and others.<\/p><p>\u201cThey are together in the party because their interests are broadly similar and they believe the party is the right vehicle for them to realise their goals. Sometimes they compete and clash, but for most part, they cooperate and form strong bond to give their party the victory in every election cycle. The party loses anytime this bond is broken,\u201d Ogbeni Aregbesola stated.<\/p><p>The immediate past Minister of Interior also stated that the launch of the Omoluabi Caucus is to renew their path in progressive politics as inherited from Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Bola Ige, amongst other progressives who epitomizes the Omoluabi ethos, noting that the loss of the party in the state can be traced to the departure from these progressive ideals, but revealing that it will bounce back again to it winning ways.<\/p><p>\u201cWhat we have come to do here today is to renew our commitment to the path of progressive ideology and politics as inherited from our great past heroes, beginning from Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Chief Bola Ige and others in the pantheon of progressive politics too numerous to mention.<\/p><p>\u201cEmerging from the ashes of the near annihilation of our party in the governorship election of 2022 and the general election earlier this year, we should rise up and renew our strength and reclaim our place in the political firmament in Osun.<\/p><p>\u201cWe have been at this juncture before, after the 2003 election in which our party lost the stakes and was at its nadir in the state. At that point, likeminded progressives under the banner of Oranmiyan emerged to begin a movement that mobilised our members and the people of the state into a veritable electoral machine that won the 2007 governorship election which ushered an epoch making two term administration in the state and handed over to a successor from our party,\u201d Ogbeni Aregbesola stated.<\/p><p>Ogbeni Aregbesola stated that it is clear the people have not rejected the progressives in Osun, giving the warm reception accorded to his tendency and were only unhappy with the managers of the party at that time.<\/p><p>\u201cGiven the enthusiastic and heartfelt reception accorded us by the people anytime we are in the state, it is clear that they did not reject us or our party. They are only not well pleased with the individuals who have turned our party to personal fiefdom and abandoned the path of progressivism and the interest of the people.<\/p><p>\u201cOur party failed principally because of indiscipline and lack\/loss of focus. This is manifested in form of lack of character and incompetence. Character is the mental and moral qualities required in an individual to occupy certain office or perform certain task. Competence is the skill required to get specific task done. It is bad when one of the two is absent, but it is always catastrophic when both are absent. It is beyond disputation how the absence of these virtues spelt doom for our party in the recent past.<\/p><p>\u201cThese virtues are integral to the Omoluabi ethos in Yoruba belief system. When we were at the helm here, we not only lived this ethos, we made conscious effort to revive and promote it among the generality of the people of the state. We should therefore consciously return to this path of rectitude and distinguish ourselves as Omoluabi in its most pristine form,\u201d Ogbeni Aregbesola charged members of the newly formed caucus.<\/p><p>After the formal launch of the caucus, the group adopted its charter which includes; Progressivism, Omoluabi Ethos, Discipline, Competence and Inclusivity as its core values.<\/p><p>Members of the caucus are drawn from each ward of the 332 wards in the state and were represented by five members each from each of the local governments in the state. At the event where the former speaker of the Osun House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Najeem Salaam; former Secretary to the State Government, Alh. Moshood Adeoti; former Senators representing the West Senatorial District, Sen. Adelere Oriolowo, Sen. Mudashiru Hussein; former commissioners and members of cabinet in the state, former state house of assembly members and local government functionaries in the state<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Signed<\/p><p>Sola Fasure<\/p><p>Media Adviser to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola<\/p><p>22\/08\/2023<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aregbesola Launches Omoluabi APC Caucus, Restate Commitment to Progressive Ideologies in Osun The immediate past Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has restated his commitment to progressive ideals and the All Progressives Party, APC, in Osun State even as he stated that political parties are amalgamation of different interests and tendencies. 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