*Vows to deliver Akinlade of APM as next Ogun State Governor-elect
One of the sources said: “What many who are blaming Amosun do not know or which they probably know but are dodging the truth of, is that they are not really sincere about the Nigeria Project being carried on by President Buhari. If they are, they should not be seing APC only from the lens of a leader in Lagos who is using Oshiomhole to push all party loyalties to himself just because of 2023 like he struggled same control with Atiku in 2015 which earned us destructive Saraki just because of 2019. I won’t say more than that.”
Governor of Ogun State and a known dependable ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has said that time has now ripened for him to speak about what he described as his purported suspension by Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Amosun was on Friday announced as suspended from the APC along with Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who has since dismissed the suspension as empty on the ground, according to Okorocha, that “Oshiomhole has no powers to suspend from a party I helped form”.
Others who were suspended include the Minister of Niger Delta Development Pastor Usani Usani and Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr. Osita Okechukwu.
Following the announcement of the suspension, Amosun Saturday morning jetted to Abuja where he was received in audience by President Buhari and the two leaders headed straight into a closed door meeting.
Although details of the discussion at the meeting was yet revealed, Amosun upon emerging from told State House correspondent that he was not ready to talk yet as there was still a big job ahead of his to do.
The governor however thanked the Almighty Allah that, despite all the gangups against him by some forces in APC, he was able to deliver Ogun State for his friend of many years, Buhari, at the presidential and national assembly elections held on Saturday 23 February 2019.
Amosun, who never saw any substance in the APC’s claim of anti-party allegation him necessitating his suspension, said he was moving all out to ensure that he campaign vigorously for the successful delivery of his candidate of APM, Hon. Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade, and APM legislative candidates in the coming Saturday 9 March 2019 governorship and State House of Assembly elections in Ogun State.
Although many have described Amosun’s support for another party as wrong and uncalled for, but many other observers of Ogun and cross-country behaviour of APC leadership and its noted inability to manage success since 2015 till date are saying that injustice is the serious factor that is responsible for the crisis within the ruling party.
One of the sources said: “What many who are blaming Amosun do not know or which they probably know but are dodging the truth of, is that they are not really sincere about the Nigeria Project being carried on by President Buhari. If they are, they should not be seing APC only from the lens of a leader in Lagos who is using Oshiomhole to push all party loyalties to himself just because of 2023 like he struggled same control with Atiku in 2015 which earned us destructive Saraki just because of 2019. I won’t say more than that.”
One of them dismissed the claim that Amosun would be worse than Saraki.
He said: “Tell me how Amosun will be worse than Saraki. One, Saraki was Atiku’s boy and every Nigerian knew that he was visiting the Minna, Niger State home of former President Ibrahim Babangida to take advice and instructions as to how to demolish President Muhammadu Buhari and Olusegun Obasanjo was part of his godfathers. Where has Amosun come to meet with that? Amosun had all the similar push by Obasanjo but rejected him. Amosun’s loyalty to Buhari is 100 percent, same Okorocha,” he said.
