Following talks of Ogun State governor Ibikunle Amosun dumping the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) after his preferred candidate was knocked out of the 2019 guber race by the National Working Committee (NWC), the governor has admitted he was truly under “enormous pressure” to dump the party.
This was stated by the governor through his commissioner for information, Dayo Adeneye.
The governor was said to have protested when Abiodun Akinlade, his preferred choice as successor was bundled out of the governorship contest by the NWC.
Amosun had earlier announced a consensus list of candidates for various positions in the state but was reject by most members of the party in the state and the list was consequently thrown away by the NWC.
The governor thereafter backed a parallel primary organised by the state chapter of the party but the NWC insisted on the primary that produced Dapo Abiodun as governorship candidate of the state for 2019.
Amosun was among the APC governors who locked horns with the national working committee (NWC) of the ruling party over the primaries for 2019 polls.
The governor held several meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari but that did not change the situation.
Reports however emanated that Amosun had finalised plans to defect to Accord Party after falling out with the leadership of APC.
In his reaction to the defection tales, the governor described the report as a figment of the writer(s) imagination.
In a statement issued by Adeneye, Amosun wondered how he could be expected to quit a house he jointly built with other patriots.
“It is true that enormous pressure was brought to bear on Governor Amosun to move to another party, because of the glaring injustice meted out to some party members at the recent primaries, but the governor maintained his stand that he would not decamp, especially on account of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose judgment and sense of justice, as the leader of the party, he cherishes and values immensely,” the statement read.
“For those who know Amosun over the years, his struggles are usually not about his own person but equity, justice and fairness for all, especially the downtrodden masses. President Buhari represents this spirit and Amosun will stand by him and with him in any party at all times and at all costs,” he stated.
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