2019: Oshiomhole Was Sent To Kill Buhari And APC – Gov. Amosun

The Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has
said that the National Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was sent to kill
the party.
Amosun said the former Edo Governor was a liar.
The Governor was speaking over the controversies trailing
the party’s gubernatorial primaries in Ogun State.
Amosun said Oshiomhole’s side of the story was nothing but
a pack of lies aimed at confusing members of the public.
He maintained that the former Governor’s version of the
event was a grand fraud presented as a fact.
Amosun spoke to reporters through his Senior Special
Assistant on Media Opeyemi Soyombo, in reaction to
Oshiomhole’s account on the controversies surrounding the
selection of governorship candidate in the state.
Amosun said Oshiomhole’s statement through the acting
national publicity secretary of APC, Lanre Issa-Onilu where
the APC national chairman insisted that gubernatorial
primaries took place in the state should be disregarded.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we state for the umpteenth time
that there was no gubernatorial primaries in Ogun State other
than the one held on October 2 that produced Hon. Adekunle
Akinlade as governorship candidate.
“The attempt by Mr Issa-Onilu to confuse the issues is
therefore belittling of someone holding a position of publicity
secretary of a reputable political party’,” Amosun declared.
The governor further refuted another claim reportedly made
by Issa-Onilu that there was a court injunction restraining
Ogun State executive committee of the party from
participating in the conduct of the primaries, saying that it
was a fabrication to defraud the people of Ogun State.
“Which court gave the injunction and when? Who are the
parties in the case? If at all there is, did the national
secretariat bring it to the attention of the state executive
committee of the party?
“Was the injunction given at a weekend or on the public
holiday of October 1 because the national secretariat engaged
the state executive of the party on the primaries all through
the weekend leading to the October 2 primaries,” the governor
added.
He said that the imbroglio over the party’s gubernatorial
primaries in the state has brought to the fore the danger APC
faces in the hands of Oshiomhole and a few members of the
party’s National Working Committee like Issa Onilu who are
in cahoots with the chairman.
Amosun vowed that “the people of Ogun State will not allow
willing tools in the party’s national secretariat to hand over
the state to some expansionist adventurers who are an
indesperate search for additional territories for their
insatiable economic exploitation.”
He further called on leaders of the party to call the party boss
to order before he put the chances of the party in the 2019
elections in jeopardy.
Amosun, however, restated his commitment to work for the
second term election of President Buhari, adding that “no
provocation by Oshiomhole and his co-travellers who are
working against the interest of President Buhari and the
overall interest of the party will make him change my mind.”