Nigeria, Jan. 27 -- Following Sunday's declaration by the former governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, and his group, the Omoluabi Progressives, announcing their exit from the mainstream All Progressives Congress (APC), the state chapter of the party on Monday described the development as "good riddance to bad rubbish."

The party noted that Mr Aregbesola, who is also the immediate past Minister for Internal Affairs and his splinter group, had discreetly left the APC over three years ago, stressing that "the preposterous announcement of the so-called Omoluabi Progressives to quit the APC is a good riddance to bad rubbish."

In a statement forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES by the APC's Director of Media and Information in Osun State, Kola Olabisi, t...