Amosun said APC conducted the worst primaries in Nigeria’s history under the watch of Oshiomhole.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Senator Ibikunle Amosun has described Senator Adams Oshiomhole as the “biggest and most destructive threat” to the All Progressives Congress (APC) over his role in the party’s primaries in 2019.
Amosun stated this in a press release on Wednesday in response to Oshiomhole who named him on Tuesday among those who made the party spend N2.4 billion to win the governorship elections in Kwara, Imo, and Ogun.
Speaking at the book launch of the former APC National Vice Chairman North West, Salihu Lukman, Oshiomhole said the need to spend N800 million in Imo, Ogun, Kwara, and Taraba was because they had strong opposition leaders in those states.
For Imo State, he said that there was Senator Rochas Okorocha, who was against the candidate of the party; Kwara had former Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki and in Ogun State, APC had Amosun who worked against the candidate of the party, Dapo Abiodun.
Amosun wanted Adekunle Akinlade to succeed him as governor of Ogun, not Abiodun. He supported Akinlade who left the APC to join the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).
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However, in his statement, Amosun knocked the former Edo governor, saying his narrative was fraught with lies, and he (Oshiomhole) did not boast the requisite integrity to say the truth.
Amosun said APC conducted the worst primaries in Nigeria’s history under Oshiomhole’s watch.
“It is not in doubt that I have participated fully in the formation and sustenance of our party, the APC, and I can boldly say that the party under Adams Oshiomhole conducted one of the worst primaries in the history of Nigeria’s contemporary politics and ended up shopping for his own enemies, leading to his eventual removal as Chairman of our party. Nigerians should not be in a hurry to forget the allegations that preceded the conduct of those primaries and his eventual invitation by the Department of State Service, DSS, to clarify certain grave allegations.
“If anyone was in doubt that Senator Oshiomhole posed the biggest and most destructive threat to the existence of the APC at that time, and the party’s best bet was to dispose of a canon folder that he was and unfortunately still is, his utterances and grandstanding yesterday at an occasion to find solutions to our democratic and party challenges, would have cleared such mindset,” he said.
