Ogun APC Crisis: Amosun Shock As His Guber, All State Assembly Candidates Omitted

There was a shock in the camp of Governor Amosun in the All Progressives Party, APC in Ogun State on Friday after all 26 House of Assembly persons penciled down from the primaries conducted by the party were sidelined in the APC’s list of House of Assembly candidates for the state.

Party activists in Ogun State were in shock on Friday after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC published Dapo Abiodun as the APC’s governorship candidate and excluded all 26 persons fielded by the Governor Ibikunle Amosun led mainstream of the party in the House of Assembly contests.

That was beside the fact that the outgoing governor also lost his bid to project his favoured man, Adekunle Akinlade as the APC’s governorship candidate.

The governor and his associates were yesterday pondering their options. The removal of the list of his candidates for the 26 state constituencies it was learned may have made the defection to the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP inevitable.

His associates refused to speak on the developments when contacted yesterday.

The State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Wole Elegbede said the party in the state has checked the list and confirmed that the 26 names positioned as the party’s state constituency candidates were not those submitted from the state chapter as he refused to entertain further questions.

But, a source who pleaded anonymity said the aggrieved candidates of the party would stay put in the party despite their missing names in the INEC list.

The source said their solace lies on the fact that they would seek the help of judiciary to reclaim their mandate.

According to the source, they had expected the NWC to be honourable and allowed the winners to contest the election and not replacing their names with a different set of people.

Any bid by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to gloat in the distress of the ruling party was cut short when INEC also foisted the candidates of the Buruji Kashamu led tendency on it in Ogun State.

The former presidential spokesman, Dr. Rueben Abati was named as running mate to the PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Lawal Shitu who is aligned to the Buruji faction.

With the publication of the names of the governorship and state Houses of Assembly candidates, the three APC governors mostly affected by the derailment of their succession plots were yesterday pondering their options for political relevance within their states.

The three governors are Governors Amosun, Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State.

The party was left out of the electoral contest in Zamafara after the party reportedly failed to meet the October 7 deadline for the conduct of its primaries to produce candidates in the state.

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