No peace accord between Abiodun, Amosun-Ogun APC

By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta

Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that there is no peace accord between loyalists of the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and Governor Dapo Abiodun.

State Publicity Secretary of the party, Tunde Oladunjoye stated this in a statement on Thursday.

He said: “We want to alert members of the general public, especially members of All Progressives Congress (APC), that contrary to the fake news, there was no proposed agreement for power sharing either with anyone or group by the party in Ogun State.

“There could not have been any agreement or sharing formula with people or group who by all intents, purposes, actions and utterances are not members of our party.

“It is well known that this set of disloyal politicians did not only resign their membership from the APC in the build up to the 2019 governorship election, which was clearly won by the present Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, their unexpected return to the APC is nothing but a mere talk as their actions had consistently shown.

“These serial complainants and endemic petitioners are in their usual character, aim to blackmail the leader of our party and the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, in a desperate attempt to continuously cause confusion and possibly reap from where they did not sow. That is why they have been churning out serial falsehoods.  

“Intelligence reports have always pointed to the fact that members of the embattled Amosun group have always been hand-in-gloves with members of the opposition parties, especially the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“It is therefore not unexpected that they want to return to the PDP, which they actually worked for in 2019. It is on record that the Amosun group, after defecting to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in 2019, went ahead and signed an MOU dated 7th March, 2019 with the PDP. It is this expired MOU that the insatiable Amosun group simply wants to renew.

“We commend notable former members of the group like the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Senator Lekan Mustapha; former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Jide Ojuko; former Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, and many others who have since seen the light and have returned to the mainstream Ogun APC, pledging their loyalty to Governor Dapo Abiodun.

“We urged all members not to be misled or distracted by the antics of these sore losers who are still sulking three years after losing the March 2019 governorship election. “Our focus as a party is to support our government to continue to deliver the dividends of democracy to the good people of Ogun State and to win the forthcoming general election overwhelmingly.”