The Governor
of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, says the National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, lacks respect for truth and decency.
The governor
stated this while reacting to statements credited to Oshiomhole on the
controversy surrounding the primaries of the party in Ogun State.
He also
said, “The design of the national chairman and his collaborators to hijack the
government of Ogun State and hand it over to a gang of rapacious expansionists
in the South-West will fail.”
The state
Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Adedayo Adeneye, stated this in a
statement issued on Saturday.
Adeneye said
the governor had noted the unsavoury language used against him by the party
chairman, but that he (Amosun) “will not descend into the gutter to exchange
words with him (Oshiomhole).”
Amosun said
the APC leadership in Ogun State was contended with the only governorship
primary held in the state on October 2, which produced Adekunle Akinlade as the
winner.
He said the
emergence of Akinlade was initially through a consensus arrangement as allowed
by the party constitution but was nevertheless subjected to a primary election
when some aspirants disagreed with the outcome of the consensus arrangement.
He said,
“This is however, without prejudice to the sanctity of the consensus
arrangement which Adams Oshiomhole hypocritically tried to demonise. “Nigerians
will recall that Oshiomhole himself was elected national chairman of the APC by
consensus arrangement which witnessed all other contestants to the office being
prevailed upon to step down for him (Oshiomhole).
“The grounds
on which Oshiomhole disputed the governorship primary in Ogun State is that the
result was not announced by the State Electoral Committee from Abuja, meaning
that the governor resorted to self-help.
“We wonder
why Oshiomhole accepted the result of the primary election in Lagos State when
the result was also not announced by the State Electoral Panel. Why will the
same scenario be acceptable in Lagos State but regarded as self-help in Ogun
State? Is it because it was executed by the Capo Di Tutti in Lagos State?
“We wish to
call the attention of Nigerians to another evil being perpetrated by Oshiomhole
in Ogun State.
“As of
today, November 3, which is 24 hours after the deadline for submission of names
of candidates for the House of Assembly to the INEC, Oshiomhole has not given
INEC Party Candidate Form (CF001) to any of the 26 candidates who won the
primaries to contest the Ogun State House of Assembly.
“The primary
was conducted on October 7 by the State Electoral Committee headed by Col. Ali
Ciroma. This is despite the fact that the state chairman of the party had kept
vigil at the national secretariat of the APC in the last two weeks to collect
the forms.
“If
Oshiomhole is denying the outcome of the governorship primary because the State
Electoral Committee shied away from announcing the result, what is the reason
for denying all the 26 candidates for the House of Assembly freely elected by
members of the APC in Ogun State?
“We want
Nigerians to note the duplicity and meddlesomeness of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole
and his gang in the affairs of the APC in Ogun State.”
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