Oshiomhole Bereft Of All Standards Of Justice, Fairness – Gov Amosun

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has responded to the claim by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, that only three APC governors were not happy with the outcome of the party’s primary elections.

“Here I am as national chairman conducting primaries, the outcome of which some very powerful people did not see their preferred candidates emerging,” Oshiomhole had said on Wednesday after holding a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House.

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“I think that with time, we will reconcile all these; Amosun is my good friend; we have known each other for a very long time; we exchange personal visits in addition to official visits; Zamfara governor has been the Chairman of NGF and I was an active member of that forum; we have wonderful time together and I believe in the future, we are still going to have wonderful time together,” The APC Chairman said, adding that, “Governor Rochas Okorocha was one of those who had issues with my predecessor and I did my best to try and resolve those issues in a way that has been given him a new platform.”

But responding to Oshiomhole’s submission through the State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dayo Adeneye, Amosun berated the APC Chairman, insisting that he has fallen “short of all standards of justice and fairness” in conducting the party’s primaries.

Adeneye said, “Oshiomhole’s claim that only three state governors are aggrieved about the conduct of the primaries flies in the face of the nation-wide outcry that remains loud, trailing the exercise several weeks after,” adding that “We remind him that in any case, justice is not dependent on the number of whom it has been denied. Injustice to one is injustice to all.”

The Commissioner said, “We state without any fear of equivocation that no one, at least not on the side of Senator Amosun, has requested or expected Oshiomhole to sell his conscience.

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“The least we expect of him is to abide by the rules and guidelines of the APC. Oshiomhole knows, as we know, that in the instance of the last primaries in Ogun State, he has fallen short of the minimum standards of justice, equity and fairness.”

Prior to the governorship primaries in the state, Amosun had opted for indirect primaries but the APC National Working Committee (NWC) approved direct primaries after other aspirants rejected indirect.

The development saw Amosun’s preferred candidate, Adekunle Akinlade, losing to Mr Dapo Abiodun.

“Oshiomhole knows that there were no other gubernatorial primaries in Ogun State other than the one that produced Adekunle Akinlade as candidate. He knows that the primaries into national and legislative offices were won hundred per cent by those declared winner by the panel he sent to Ogun State to oversee the exercise,” said Adeneye.

“He knows that the shenanigan of unknown court injunctions, unknown appeal panels and all sorts unleashed on the process by him and his cohorts are premeditated schemes executed to deny the members of the APC their true choice of candidates in the elections.”

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He said the governor’s “consolation lies in the fact that in the fullness of time, what remains unknown to the public will become bare and everyone will see Oshiomhole and his co-travellers for who they are.

“In his conduct, Oshiomhole has exhibited disdain for the interest of the APC and that of the National Leader of the party, President Muhammadu Buhari. Senator Amosun remains committed to his convictions about President Buhari and nothing in the shenanigan of the primaries will change that.”

The Commissioner said the state has, “Resolved that the attempt to hand over their state and their patrimony to a rapacious gang of expansionists in the South West will be resisted, not only by members of the APC but by the entire people of Ogun State who are too enlightened to tolerate such abomination.”

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