Congresses: Amosun, supporters not loyal to APC – Party’s spokesman

The newly elected Publicity Secretary of the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tunde Oladunjoye, on Tuesday, declared that the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and his loyalists are not loyal members of the ruling party.

Oladunjoye, who accused Amosun and his followers of plotting to cause chaos and throw the state into anarchy by heating up its polity, said the former governor and his co-conspirators would fail.

He spoke while featuring on a Rockcity FM radio programme tagged, “Citizens’ Forum,” which was monitored by our correspondent in Abeokuta.

His comments came amid the controversy trailing the reported parallel state congresses of the APC organised by the rival factions of Governor Dapo Abiodun and Senator Amosun in Abeokuta last Saturday.

Oladunjoye, however, insisted that there were no parallel congresses of the ruling party in the state.

He described the purported parallel congress conducted by Amosun and his loyalists as a “charade and mere gathering of family and friends.”

According to him, Amosun and his followers are not loyal members of the party but a group of impostors who are only hell bent on disrupting the peace of the state.

Oladunjoye argued that the only authentic executives of the party at the ward, local government and state levels are those whose elections were conducted by the seven-member congress committee sent from the APC national headquarters in Abuja and monitored by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The Publicity Secretary maintained that the purported parallel congress staged by Amosun’s supporters was neither sanctioned by the national leadership of party nor monitored by INEC officials.

He, therefore, called on the APC national leadership to deal decisively with the impostors who, he noted, had violated the party’s constitution by engaging in anti-party activities.

Oladunjoye said: “If you want to be relevant in a party, if you want to be the leader in a party it is not by force, you have to lobby, you have to persuade, you have to follow the rules and regulations of that party.

“They are just playing games with themselves. The man is deceiving his followers because he ended nowhere in 2018, he ended nowhere in 2019, he is just deceiving himself and his followers are also deceiving him because they know he has their money and they want the money.

“We are appealing to the people of Ogun State to help us appeal to him and his followers. We don’t want to go into an era of violence in Ogun State. We don’t want the polity to be heated up.”

Oladunjoye also said the ruling APC and the Abiodun-led administration in the state remained committed to delivering on their campaign promises to the people and will not be distracted by the shenanigans of Amosun and his followers.