Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ogun State chapter has said Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s ‘father and son’ relationship with former President Olusegun Obasanjo will not save him from being removed from the Government House in 2015.
The state chairman of the party, Adebayo Dayo, stated that the ex-president would not work for the APC but the PDP, which he is a founding father.
Speaking with Punch, 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 an 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 party chieftain added that leaders of the PDP in the state were resolving the issues in the party to gain the momentum enough to unseat the ruling APC.
The state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Sola Lawal, however, described the relationship between the elder statesman and the governor as “a family affair.”
He said the PDP was ‘myopic and backward’ with its definition of the relationship.
Lawal 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 to 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”. .
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