OGUN APC CRISIS: Gov Amosun fingers Tinubu, Osoba, says they conspired with Oshiomhole

Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun on Monday continued his kicks and complaints over the outcome of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries in the state.

Insisting that the process that produced Dapo Abiodun as the APC governorship candidate for the state was fraudulent, Amosun accused the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, of colluding with “a cabal in Lagos” to perpetrate the ‘fraud’.

According to him, the silence of former governors of Lagos and Ogun, Bola Tinubu and Segun Osoba respectively, on the matter is evidence they consented to the fraud.

The governor stated this when he spoke with newsmen soon after swearing-in the new Chief Judge of the state, Mosunmola Dipeolu, at the governor’s office in Abeokuta, the state capital.

“The President already knows there was no election in Ogun State. He knows that they just went to Lagos to write all results, and that what they did is fraud. If the National Working Committee or the National Chairman said there was any election in Ogun State, It was all fraud. That is what I said.

“Mr. President already knows, there was no election in Ogun State, other than the one we held.

“The issue of Chief Osoba and Asiwaju and co, what we said was that there was a deafening silence from their end, and silence means consent. You can record me and publish out in your newspapers’

“We have not heard one word from any of them. Was there any election in Ogun State? Yes or No? They should come out and those that are hiding behind one finger, they cannot come out. People at this level should be courageous enough to take position, to come out, to come and tell us whether there was election.

“On governorship, the day they said they did it or not, the one that we had, there was live telecast, people even witnessed. They all came that they are changing again. They removed Leke Adewolu, Mikail Kazeem. All of those ones are nothing but fraud.”

Ogun State APC has been in deep crisis after the party’s NWC jettisoned the candidate produced by the primaries held by the faction of the party loyal to Governor Amosun.

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While Amosun’s group had in their primary produced Adekunle Akinlade as governorship candidate of the party, another primary in the state had produced Abiodun, whose name was submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as APC governorship candidate for Ogun State.

Amosun has continued to kick against the development traversing Abuja to cry out to President Muhammadu Buhari of the development in his state.

 

 

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