The crisis rocking the Congress for Political Change (CPC) an arm of the All Progressives Alliance (APC) in Oyo State has deepened following the exclusion of its leader, Barrister Shittu from the harmonized committee in the state.  In the list which was inaugurated on Tuesday by the Interim Vice Chairman of the party in the South West, Chief Adebayo Adeniyi, two prominent names from the defunct CPC were prominent.

They were the deputy governor in the 2011 governorship election, Esther Adedokun and its chairman Abideen Oladimeji. Adebayo had during the inauguration admitted that there was omission in the harmonized committee and assured that it would be rectified at the party's NEC meeting in Abuja.

CEOAFRICA learnt on Wednesday that Shittu was dropped from the harmonized APC Interim Committee because of his political ambition to contest the 2015 election with Ajimobi. According to party source, the leader of the defunct CPC in the state has indicated his intention to contest the 2015 governorship election with the incumbent governor.

 Trouble started when Oladimeji was made commissioner by Governor Abiola Ajimobi and still wanted to remain the chairman of the party in the state. This, it was learnt was not augur well with members of the defunct who "believe that as Ajimobi employee, he cannot work against him and that may affect the project of CPC." When contacted, Shittu disclosed that he was not inverted for the inauguration of the harmonized APC interim committee. He described it as exclusion of Ajimobi's rival.

According to him, rival to governor Ajimobi in APC has been excluded from the harmonization committee because the former chairman of defunct CPC has decided to commit heinous treachery by selling out to the governor. Shittu who claimed that he had put in 35 years in politics said "I will not allow anybody to truncated my political service to the people of the state when it is clear that there must be a change "The change we are clamouring for should not be at the federal level alone but in states where there is misgovernance," he said.