Crisis rocking the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have worsened as the three elected senators on the party’s platform are set to dump the party.
The Ogun State APC had been embroiled in crisis threatening its cohesiveness ahead of the 2015 general elections due to power struggle between Governor Ibikunle Amosun and a former governor of the state, Olusegun Osoba.
Amosun had in recent past dislodged the Osoba camp from key party positions as well as elective and appointive offices.
Amosun’s deputy, Otunba Segun Adesegun, later confirmed the crisis.
Already, the senators, Akin Odunsi (West), Gbenga Kaka (East) and Gbenga Obadara (Central) had concluded plans to formally leave the party on the floor of the Senate.
It was gathered that this might not unconnected with their decision to find a suitable platform ahead of 2015.
The major political parties in the state were also said to be desperate to have Osoba in their camp to dislodge Amosun.
Series of meetings, it was leant, had been held at Osoba’s Lagos residence in connection with the development.
Though it was unclear whether the former governor’s camp would join any of these parties, one of his loyalists said a coalition to oust Amosun from the Oke Mosan Governor’s Office should not be ruled out.
The parties wooing the Osoba camp, Daily Sun gathered, may have their way as hopes of resolving the crisis may had been foreclosed.
Obadara confirmed their planned defection from the APC.
His words: “I can tell you for a fact that three APC senators, who have been rejected by Senator Amosun as nobody and as people without electoral value, have moved.”
Efforts to speak with the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Sola Lawal, failed, as calls to his mobile phone were unanswered.
The Ogun State APC had been embroiled in crisis threatening its cohesiveness ahead of the 2015 general elections due to power struggle between Governor Ibikunle Amosun and a former governor of the state, Olusegun Osoba.
Amosun had in recent past dislodged the Osoba camp from key party positions as well as elective and appointive offices.
Amosun’s deputy, Otunba Segun Adesegun, later confirmed the crisis.
Already, the senators, Akin Odunsi (West), Gbenga Kaka (East) and Gbenga Obadara (Central) had concluded plans to formally leave the party on the floor of the Senate.
It was gathered that this might not unconnected with their decision to find a suitable platform ahead of 2015.
The major political parties in the state were also said to be desperate to have Osoba in their camp to dislodge Amosun.
Series of meetings, it was leant, had been held at Osoba’s Lagos residence in connection with the development.
Though it was unclear whether the former governor’s camp would join any of these parties, one of his loyalists said a coalition to oust Amosun from the Oke Mosan Governor’s Office should not be ruled out.
The parties wooing the Osoba camp, Daily Sun gathered, may have their way as hopes of resolving the crisis may had been foreclosed.
Obadara confirmed their planned defection from the APC.
His words: “I can tell you for a fact that three APC senators, who have been rejected by Senator Amosun as nobody and as people without electoral value, have moved.”
Efforts to speak with the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Sola Lawal, failed, as calls to his mobile phone were unanswered.
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