Ogun State PDP says Amosun will lose in 2015 Despite Obasanjo’s Support For Him
The Ogun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that no amount of closeness between Governor Ibikunle Amosun and former President Olusegun Obasanjo will help Amosu win in the 2015 election.
The state chairman of the party, Adebayo Dayo, said: “At the end of the day, we are all going to Baba (Obasanjo) to go and beg him. He is our political father. Even though Ibikunle Amosun is using the influence of Baba, being and Egba man, and visits him day and night, it does not matter. Baba is not an APC man; he is our leader in the PDP; he is a PDP father.”
The All Progressives Congress however replied the claims through the Publicity Secretary, Sola Lawal, who said the relationship between the governor and ex-President is a family affair.
He said: “Don’t forget that Baba Obasanjo has always said he is still in the PDP, also, he is a prominent man; he is also an Owu man like the governor. Isn’t it natural for the governor to gravitate towards a prominent kinsman of his? Must politics and party differences put so much a wedge between two from the same clan, such that they will not interact with each other? No.
“The interaction between Amosun and Obasanjo had always been there, even before Amosun came into politics. The relationship is not borne out of politics or reap political gains. Whatever Amosun has to gain politically has been gained through his performance in Ogun. If anybody now reads political meaning to it, that person must be myopic, short-sighted and retrogressive.”
