A political pressure group in Ogun State, Ogun Political Watch, has advised the immediate past governor of the Gateway State, who doubles as the senator representing Ogun Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, to desist from spinning falsehood about the administration of the incumbent Governor Dapo Abiodun, insisting that such strategy was doomed to fail.
Giving the warning and the declaration in a statement signed by its secretary, Alhaji Wahab Adeyemi, in Abeokuta on Wednesday and made available to newsmen, the group described Amosun as a disgruntled and desperate politician, who could not get over his failure to install a stooge at Oke Mosan as governor in 2019.
The statement was also a reaction to the sundry allegations and falsehoods levelled against Governor Abiodun by the senator during the governorship campaign of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the state on Wednesday.
It added that Amosun was still yet to overcome his failure to secure a return ticket to the Senate during the All Progressives Congress, APC, primaries last year.
Noting that having failed woefully to achieve his inordinate ambition, the senator pitched his tent with a moribund political party and an extremely weak candidate, Ogun Political Watch added Amosun and his protege and adopted political party will fail woefully in the coming election.
It said, “Curiously, the same Biyi Otegbeye that Amosun is supporting now was the APC candidate for the House of Representatives in his constituency in 2019, and whose ambition then Amosun fought tooth and nail to defeat.
“Now, because the guy has decided to share the patrimony of Ogun State with him, he has decided to support him, but they will both fail woefully.”
The group described Senator Amosun’s allegation that Governor Abiodun spent N3 billion on the rehabilitation the model schools he, Amosun, built with N830 million as “patently laughable,” and urged the Ogun Central senator to get over his bitterness and anger.
The group insisted that officials of the Abiodun-led government had already shown that the figures expended on the rehabilitation of the said schools was less than five percent of the figure Amosun was bandying about.
It continued, “Amosun is bandying about unrealistic figures out of his desperate ambition to rubbish Governor Abiodun, who has clearly surpassed his eight-year achievements in just four years.
“Was Amosun really talking about the so-called model schools that failed structural integrity test and could not house a single student?
“The Abiodun administration had to convert those of them that were fairly habitable to isolation centres during the COVID-19 crisis.
“It is unconscionable for an APC senator to be repeating the anti-party activities he carried out to his utter shame in 2019, circulating bogus figures out of pure mischief, and with the intention to install the candidate of another political party in office while remaining in APC as a senator.
“We invite the APC leadership to sanction Amosun while he and his ADC stooge go into political oblivion.”
