PRESS STATEMENTThe Lies Oshiomhole Represents
.. He and his collaborators will fail in Ogun State
-Amosun
The
Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has stated that the
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole, lacks respect for truth and decency.
The governor who was
reacting to statements credited to Comrade Adams Oshiomole on the
controversy trailing the primaries of the party in Ogun State also
stated that the design of Adams Oshiomhole and his collaborators to
hijack the government of Ogun State and hand it over to a gang of
rapacious expansionists in the South West will fail.
A statement
signed by Adedayo Adeneye, the Ogun State Commissioner for Information
and Strategy, states that Governor Amosun notes the unsavoury language
used against him by the garrulous party chairman, but that he will not
descend into the gutter to exchange words with him because where he
comes from, there are “acceptable standards of conduct expected of
people holding certain offices, a virtue he wishes Oshiomhole would
exhibit”.
Governor Amosun restated the contention of the APC
leadership in Ogun State that the only gubernatorial primary held in the
State was that of October 02, 2018 which produced Hon. Adekunle
Akinlade as winner. He said the emergence of Akinlade was initially
through a consensus arrangement as allowed by the party constitution but
was nevertheless subjected to a primary election when some
gubernatorial aspirants disagreed with the outcome of the consensus
arrangement. “This is however, without prejudice to the sanctity of the
consensus arrangement which Adams Oshiomhole hypocritically tries to
demonise. Nigerians will recall that Oshiomhole himself was elected
National Chairman of the APC by consensus arrangement which witnessed
all other contestants to the office being prevailed upon to step down
for him (Oshiomhole).
The ground on which Oshiomhole disputes the
gubernatorial primary in Ogun State is that the result was not announced
by the State Electoral Committee from Abuja, therefore the governor
resorted to self-help. We wonder why Oshiomhole accepted the result of
the primary election in Lagos State whose result was also not announced
by the State Electoral Panel. Why will the same scenario be acceptable
in Lagos State but regarded as self-help in Ogun State? Is it because it
was executed by the Capo Di Tutti in Lagos State?
“We wish to call
the attention of Nigerians to another evil being perpetrated by
Oshiomhole in Ogun State. As at today November 03, which is 24 hours
after the deadline for submission of names of candidates for the House
of Assembly, Oshiomhole has not given INEC Party Candidate Form (CF001)
to any of the 26 candidates who won the primaries for the ticket to
contest for the Ogun State House of Assembly. The primary was conducted
on October 07 by the State Electoral Committee headed by Col. Ali
Ciroma. This is despite the fact that the State Chairman of the party
had kept vigil at the national secretariat of the APC in the last two
weeks to collect the forms. If Oshiomhole is denying the outcome of the
gubernatorial primaries because the State Electoral Committee shied away
from announcing the result, what is the reason for denying all the 26
candidates for the House of Assembly freely elected by members of the
APC in Ogun State? We want Nigerians to note the duplicity and
meddlesomeness of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and his gang in the affairs
of the APC in Ogun State.
“It is also important to note that
Oshiomhole unilaterally replaced four of the nine winners of the primary
election into the House of Representatives. This includes Hon. Mikhail
Kazzim, a serving member of the House who won the primaries by defeating
Olumide, the son of Chief Olusegun Osoba, with 28,802 votes to Osoba’s
4,209. Oshiomhole removed Hon. Kazzim who won the primaries and replaced
him with the man he had serially defeated, not only in the last primary
election but also in the general election of 2015. In yet another
instance in Ado Odo - Ota Federal Constituency, Oshiomhole substituted
the winner of the primary for the House of Representatives, Hon. Rotimi
Rahmon with the name of Hon. Jimoh Ojugbele, who did not even contest to
go back to the House of Representatives but contested the primary for
the Senate and was defeated.
“In his conduct, Oshiomhole is opening a
new chapter in the history of elections in Nigeria- a situation where a
gang of desperate politicians will sit somewhere in another state and
write the result of an election that never took place; what our people
creatively refer to as “Offshore Rigging”!. This is what Oshiomhole and
his gang are trying to foist on Ogun State. Lawyers say “you cannot
build something on nothing”. Oshiomhole and his gang are trying to build
a storey building of fraud on nothing.
The governor also dismissed
the claims of Oshiomole that he withdrew the security of the State
Electoral Committee. “As regards the claim of Oshiomhole that Sen.
Amosun withdrew the security of the panel, Indabawa, Chairman of the
panel, is a retired Commissioner of Police. He came into Ogun State with
a full complement of police team which he claimed was provided for him
by a Deputy Inspector General of Police. How could Amosun have withdrawn
policemen he did not assign or over whom he had no control?
“All of
these have clearly shown that the motive of Oshiomhole is not the rule
of law which he proclaims on the roof top. It is rather, an evil plan
with some collaborators, desperate to hijack the government of Ogun
State and add it to the harem of states under their rapacious gang of
exploiters.
“As we have stated before, this evil design will not
succeed in Ogun State. Our people are too educated, exposed and
sophisticated to come under such odious arrangement. On a general note,
Oshiomhole, who became the APC Chairman barely three months ago, is
already threatening to write the epitaph of the party in his 100 days of
ignominy.
Governor Amosun concludes the statement with an advice for
Oshiomhole:”To Oshiomhole and his motley crew of co-travellers in
ignominy, be assured that the music has just begun and we hope that you
will enjoy the macabre dance to the music of justice”.
“By the Grace
of God and the support of the good people of Ogun State, Hon. Adekunle
Abdulkadir Akinlade will be sworn in as the new governor of Ogun State
on May 29, 2019”, the statement concluded.
Adedayo Adeneye
Hon. Commissioner for Information and Strategy Ogun State
03 November 2018
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