2019: Amosun disappoints Ogun elders, fails to name successor

By Peter Moses

Abeokuta

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday resisted pressure mounted on him by Ogun West elders to name his preferred candidate for 2019 governorship polls in the state.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) elders from the zone popularly known as Yewa/Awori, who ‎met Amosun at his Oke-Mosa office in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, firstly dissociated themselves from a reported endorsement of Senator Solomon Adeola by Ogun West consultative forum.
Then, one of the elders and a professor of history, Anthony Asiwaju, who represented Imeko Afon at the meeting, told Amosun “You should lead us as to who in Ogun West, who in Yewa land, you will like us to support and work for.”
However, the governor tactically turned down ‎the request, saying “we will all determine who will be the candidate”, he said and insisted that only a son of the soil and not a stranger would take over from him.
Nonetheless, he reaffirmed his stand to support a candidate from the zone to emerge as his successor and appealed to the elders not to see the other two senatorial districts as enemies, instead should court, lobby and consult for the realisation of Ogun West candidacy dream.
“It’s a covenant between me and my God, I will be handing over to someone from Ogun West but other senatorial districts are also qualify to contest.
“But we shouldn’t see them as enemies, it should not appear that we are taking anyone for granted, our people in Ogun East can come out to contest, in Ogun Central we’ve agreed, but if anybody comes out from the central, I will confront him frontally.
“We will be tactical and strategic but we shouldn’t pay attention to those that are not necessary. I am free to take my position just like every other person.
“I am not God, we are human but where we are today, I am supporting people from Ogun West, it will be an insult to us in this state when we have sons and daughters, no ‘Atohunrinwa’ (stranger) will come, they will wreck Ogun State if we allow it.”
The elders from the five local governments of the zone, led by a former Secretary to Ogun State Government, Deacon Poju Adeyemi, appealed to the governor to make a popular choice.

 

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