Fight To Finish!… Amosun Absent As Buhari Meets With Dapo Abiodun, Osoba, Daniel, GNI, & Others

Charles Oyelesi

The trouble rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress in Ogun state is far from over.

Stakeholders from the state led by party leader Segun Osoba and Governor Dapo Abiodun met with President Muhammadu Buhari today – and immediate past governor Ibikunle Amosun was absent.

Amosun’s absence was particularly telling with former Governor Ibikunle Amosun and Gboyega Nasir Isiaka on the entourage.

Isiaka and Daniel though currently working with Abiodun for a successful reign as the Governor of Ogun state belong to rival political parties.

The absence of Amosun at the meeting of leaders from Ogun state with President Buhari is attributed to the raging crisis that sees the former governor backing Adekunle Akinlade of the rival Allied People’s Movement to contest the victory of Abiodun in the court of law.

Amosun sponsored Akinlade on the bill of rival APM against party man Abiodun in gubernatorial election held earlier in the year.

That Abiodun, who was backed by major forces within and outside his party, won the election only fuelled the embers of discord.

Amosun, who is now a Senator representing Ogun state, however, secured a major win over Abiodun and his co-travelers by claiming the ministerial slot for Ogun state.

Amosun’s loyalist Olalekan Adegbite was picked as the ministerial nominee from Ogun state by Buhari to the consternation of Abiodun and his people.

Sources confirmed that the fallout of a series of meeting of the development was the meeting held with the President today in Abuja

That Amosun was absent at the meeting indicates that the crisis in the Ogun state chapter of APC is a “fight to finish” an insider asserted.

The meeting with the President reportedly started at about 3.04pm and held at the Council Chamber at the State House, Abuja.

Others at the meeting include Deputy, Governor Noimot Salako-Oyedele, Segun Awolowo, traditional rulers and members of the National Assembly from the state and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.

“That Amosun was absent shows the chance of a solution to the crisis is nowhere near yet” a source stated.