Pity for Osun APC is not only misplaced; it is meaningless. The party that once strutted with dominance in the state has now withered into irrelevance, undone not by external enemies but by its own arrogance, selfishness, and refusal to heed timely warnings. What we are witnessing is not a struggle for revival it is the slow burial of a political structure that squandered its mandate.
The so-called elders, often invoked as saviors, are the very architects of the collapse. Years of entitlement politics, endless rivalries, and reckless exclusion hollowed out the partyโs soul until nothing of substance remained. Silence in the face of failure did the rest. By the time corrective measures were considered, the damage was already irreversible.
For Osun APC, the story is over. The Omoluabi Progressives, once dismissed, now stand fully vindicated in their cautionary cries. Rauf Aregbesolaโs call for inclusivity and grassroots-driven leadership rings louder in death than it did in life. But like epitaphs on a gravestone, these truths arrive too late to alter the outcome.
Even unity, if it were possible, cannot save Osun APC today. The fractures run too deep, the trust deficit too wide, and the peopleโs rejection too firm. At best, unity now would only manage the funeral arrangements it cannot resurrect a party that has lost its vitality and vision.
The death of Osun APC carries lessons for the political class: that when selfishness overrides service, when entitlement smothers accountability, and when timidity replaces courage, even the strongest party will fall. The mighty have fallen in Osun, not by the sword of opponents, but by the rot within.
What remains is not hope, but history. Osun APC will be remembered not for its victories, but for how it squandered them. This is the final chapter a political obituary written in arrogance, denial, and collapse.
