2019 election fraud allegations: Ogun APC will look into Amosun

Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports

Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, the most recent governor of Ogun State, may be under investigation, according to indications that came out over the weekend when the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership met to express their displeasure over his recent outburst in which he claimed the 2019 election that produced Governor Dapo Abiodun was rigged in his favor.

Yemi Sanusi, the chairman of the Ogun APC, chastised the former governor for the statement and said that such an outburst was unbecoming of a statesman. It was learned on Friday that the party leaders demanded disciplinary action against Amosun following a closed-door meeting with the leaders of the state’s 20 local government units.

Amosun was expelled from the party in 2019 for supporting APM candidates who ran against APC candidates. Sanusi claimed to be the party’s acting chairman in 2019 and declared the poll that produced the current governor was the most credible in Ogun history. He claimed that Abiodun received a resounding majority of the vote and that there was no attempt to alter that decision.

The vigilant and unyielding people of Ogun, he continued, had foiled the governor’s attempts to ensure his candidate won. Sanusi assured Abiodun that the party’s State Working Committee had started organizing party members throughout the state’s 20 local governments in support of his re-election.

Further implying that the party might look into the rigging claim made by the former governor, he noted that it was past time to look into the senator’s anti-party activities.

In the meantime, Abiodun gave the State Executive Council a bus as part of his preparations for the general elections. He claimed that doing this will improve operations before to the elections.