February 15, 2019

what do you think about this man at ogun state campaign


Amosun's consensus produced a list of candidates that named him the party's flag bearer for the Ogun Central senatorial district (his second term as governor ends in May) to replace incumbent, Lanre Tejuoso, and also named a current House of Representatives member, Ade

kunle Akinlade, as the party's consensus candidate to contest in the governorship election.
The list also named dozens of others to contest for several elective seats in the state and in the National Assembly, leading to in-fighting in the state chapter about the fairness of the process.
APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, described the governor as an emperor who won't find a home in the party and the governor in turn called the former Edo governor a dictator and the stage was set for some really interesting war of words over the months that followed.
Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has been a divisive figure in the APC over the past five months
The Ogun chapter split into two factions and each eventually conducted primary elections that produced different sets of winners in almost all the categories. Even though Amosun was recognised as the party's senatorial candidate in the final list accepted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), his preferred successor lost the governorship ticket to Dapo Abiodun.
Akinlade soon left the APC to pitch his tent with the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) with the full backing of Amosun who has not made his support for him secret while engaging in a very public feud with Oshiomhole and the APC leadership.
[TL;DR] Basically, Amosun, a current APC governor, and flagbearer for the Ogun Central senatorial district, is supporting the party to win the presidential election, and (of course) senatorial election, but he's publicly campaigned against the party in the governorship election that has his preferred candidate contesting from an opposition party against the APC flag bearer. It's like how, if you stress your brain really hard, two plus two is sometimes equals to 22 and not four.
But everyone can agree that 4+4 = 10 [Twitter/@BuhariCentre]
Now that we're all caught up, let's talk about the insanity of Monday's rally that should deeply embarrass the ruling party.
The crowd of APC supporters, torn between loyalty to the party and loyalty to Amosun, became a tool of disgrace, pawns in the game of power played by megalomaniacs.
Long before Buhari's arrival at the venue, violence had broken out between Abiodun's supporters and Akinlade's supporters, for whom it makes no sense to be at an APC rally but let's roll with it for a minute.
The crowd only got worse as the program progressed. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, was the first to feel its stinging ire after he triggered the crowd's anger by suggesting that they should only vote for APC candidates in the forthcoming elections.

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