The Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun says members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state will resist any attempt by 'rapacious gang of expansionists in the South West' to hijack the state.
Gov. Amosun stated this in a press statement issued by his Commissioner for Information after the National Working Committee of the APC resolved to present Prince Dapo Abiodun as the Governorship candidate of the party, against his anointed candidate, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade whom he claimed won the primary election conducted in the state. He berated the National Chairman of the Party for acting the scripts of some stakeholders in the South-West, stressing that the development depicts a glaring act of injustice.
“Oshiomhole knows that there were no other gubernatorial primaries in Ogun State other than the one that produced Hon. Adekunle Akinlade as the candidate. He knows that the primaries into national and legislative offices were one hundred per cent by those declared winner by the panel he sent to Ogun State to oversee the exercise.
“He knows that the shenanigan of unknown court injunctions, unknown appeal panels and all sorts unleashed on the process by him and his cohorts are premeditated schemes executed to deny the members of the APC their true choice of candidates in the elections.
“Our consolation lies in the fact that in the fullness of time, what remains unknown to the public will become bare and everyone will see Oshiomole and his co-travellers for who they are. In his conduct, Oshiomhole has exhibited disdain for the interest of the APC and that of the National Leader of the party, President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Senator Amosun remains committed to his convictions about President Buhari and nothing in the shenanigan of the primaries will change that. Finally, Oshiomole’s claim that only three state governors are aggrieved about the conduct of the primaries flies in the face of the nation-wide outcry that remains loud, trailing the exercise several weeks after.
“We remind him that in any case, justice is not dependent on the number of whom it has been denied. Injustice to one is an injustice to all. The overwhelming majority of members of the APC in Ogun State remain unshaken in their rejection of the gangsterism that has been visited on them in the conduct of the primaries.
“They remain resolved that the attempt to hand over their state and their patrimony to a rapacious gang of expansionists in the South West will be resisted, not only by members of the APC but by the entire people of Ogun State who are too enlightened to tolerate such abomination.”
