GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has declared his full support for aggrieved candidates of the All Progressives Congress and other party members who defected to the Allied People’s Movement in the coming general elections.
He said this during a stakeholders meeting of APC held at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta, on Monday, that he could not stop their movement into APM because of the injustice meted on them.
However, the APC stakeholders meeting was attended by the governorship candidate of APM, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade and his deputy governorship candidate, Mrs Peju Adebajo.
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Amosun said God will not forgive him if he failed in his duty to stop all his consensus candidates from joining a new party to actualise their political ambition.
The governor vowed to resist any plan to rig the election from any quarters insisting that he will not support the emergence of Prince Dapo Abiodun of APC in succeeding him in office.
Amosun promised to deliver the state for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said, “When these people came, they told me they are leaving APC, I said ‘no’ but I couldn’t stop them. In fact, Akinlade has my full support, I am not going to stop him, everything I have, I will use to support him, let them try whatever they want to try, we also have our strategies and I am not going to hide behind one finger.
“I remain in APC because that’s what those people want, they want us to leave APC but they are joking. I will stay in APC to ensure that Buhari wins in Ogun State and to let them know that they can’t subvert the will of Ogun State.
“Every day, I will campaign for President Muhammdu Buhari, we will do everything possible to ensure Buhari wins massively in Ogun State, but they should not miss it, I senator Ibikunle Amosun, would not support anyone they are bringing (Dapo Abiodun).
“Why would a reasonable person lord people less than 10 per cent over the majority, it can’t happen, they know there was only one Primary and they have called me to say that, and we have done everything possible to right the wrong but they were ready in destroying the party.
“God will punish me if I stop Akinlade, all of you who are supporting Akinlade, you have my support and blessing. They are talking about party supremacy, what happens to party supremacy at the local levels?”
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