Senator Adeola knocks Amosun over apology claim, urges sanctions against ex-gov for anti-party activities

By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta

Senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Solomon Adeola, has challenged former governor Ibikunle Amosun to name those he alleged came to him to apologize for rigging the 2019 governorship election in Ogun State in favour of Governor Dapo Abiodun.

He also requested the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to penalise Senator Amosun for anti-party activities.

This was contained in a statement signed by Senator Adeola in Abeokuta on Sunday.

He said Amosun cannot play God in Ogun State politics and need to be sanctioned for anti-party activities.

“Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan, representing Lagos West Senatorial District and an indigene of Ilaro in Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State, regrets the statement made at the 50th Anniversary of Abeokuta Club by Senator Ibikunle Amosun, erstwhile governor of Ogun State and APC senator representing Ogun Central Senatorial District, to the effect that the 2019 election that saw the emergence of Prince Dapo Abiodun as Ogun State governor was rigged and he is going to work against Prince Abiodun’s re-election in 2023.

“It is regrettable nonsense that a man of the status of Senator Amosun will publicly say such a free and fair election validated by our judiciary was rigged. I challenge him to name those he alleged came to him to apologize for rigging.

“These invidious utterances would have been left unanswered as yet another ranting from a personality imbued with a sense of over bloated ego of messianic proportion in Ogun State politics. 

“However, with 2023 general elections around the corner, it is appropriate to join issues with a supposed APC member with a record of serial anti-party and anti-people tendencies aping to play God in the affairs of Ogun State.
“As a stakeholder in APC, Ogun State and the administration of Prince Abiodun, and by God’s grace and the will of the people, the senatorial candidate of Ogun West senatorial district for the 2023 election, I state with all emphasis that Senator Amosun shamefully dropped the ball in his assertion that the 2019 electoral victory of Prince Abiodun was rigged even after the said election was judicially validated right up to the highest court of the land.

“I use this medium to alert the National Working Committee of APC to this patently anti party activities of Senator Amosun in Ogun State and to henceforth be wary of his moves and suggestion on any matter. As it is, he is already plotting a repeat of APM against his party APC in the days towards 2023. But genuine APC members are solidly behind Prince Abiodun as our governor and will support his re-election in 2023.
“The victory of Prince Abiodun in 2019 has its origin in the revolt of the majority of the people of Ogun State against Senator Amosun’s lopsided oligarchic reign in Ogun State over a period of 8 years and his undemocratic, odious and obviously politically greedy attempt to impose all electoral candidates in Ogun 2019 from the state to the federal level with his cronies to the exclusion of all tendencies in Ogun State APC.

The revolt of the people of Ogun State to this attempt to play God by a mere mortal was what saw to the surprise emergence of Prince Abiodun as the arrow head of a democratic struggle fully supported by genuine democrats in Ogun State.

“Our party, APC, saw through the anti- democratic tendencies of their then governor and rightly threw their weight behind the people of Ogun State with Prince Abiodun emerging as the governor with a majority votes against Senator Amosun’s acolyte, Hon Adekunle Akinlade foisted on misguided APC members in the race under another party, Allied Peoples Movement, APM,” he said.