Adesola Sulaimon 

A former governor of Ogun state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has been berated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) over his comment that Governor Dapo Abiodun rigged the 2019 Ogun State elections.

The former governor had at an event on Friday alleged that Abiodun did not win the 2019 election.

Reacting to this in a statement by its publicity secretary, Tunde Oladunjoye, the APC said that the former governor is obviously “suffering from Political amnesia, loneliness and lack of touch with reality”.

The statement further read that “Amosun is obviously still sulking from his defeat In the election”, adding that there is absolutely no truth in his allegations towards Abiodun.

The statement reads “The attention of our party has been drawn to a statement reportedly credited to the immediate past governor of Ogun State and the chief promoter of the Allied Peoples Movement, His Excellency, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.

“The quoted statement was not only an insult to the psyche of the people of Ogun State, but also a sad indication that the former governor is yet to purge himself of extreme arrogance and intolerance that were his trademarks, which earned him suspension from our party, even as a sitting governor.

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“The APC, therefore, calls on the general public, and particularly our esteemed members, to pity and pray for the former governor as he obviously suffers from political amnesia, loneliness and absolute lack of touch with reality.

“There is absolute no truth in the specious utterance of the former governor who is obviously still sulking from the electoral defeat of his surrogate party in 2019. Our party and candidate not only won fair and square, the victory of Prince Dapo Abiodun was also attested to by his co-contestants, many of whom later joined APC and are still in APC.

“It is on record that many of the then opposition figures like former deputy governor of Ogun State, Alhaja Salmat  Badru, the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Rueben Abati and others served in the Economic Transition Committee chaired by Mr. Tunde Lemo, which was set up by Prince Dapo Abiodun, immediately after the elections

“While confirming the victory of Governor Abiodun at the Saturday, March 9,  2019  election, the tribunal led by Justice Yusuf Halilu, in its judgment, stated that: “This petition does not only fail, it is destined to fail, it fails and hereby dismissed.”

“Not satisfied, the APM and its candidate went on appeal at the Court of Appeal, Ibadan and later at the Supreme Court where they also lost. It is remarkable that in all the petition and court cases, the judgments were unanimously passed without any dissenting voice from the tribunal members and the judges at the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.