A group, National Movement for Peace (NMP) has condemned the former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun over his comments concerning the circumstances that led to the removal of Adams Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2020.
Gatekeepers News reports that Amosun earlier expressed his grievances over the APC primary polls presided over by Oshiomhole in the buildup to the 2019 elections.
Amosun’s comment followed the past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Oshiomhole’s comments at the book launch by the former National Vice Chairman of the North West zone of the APC, Salihu Lukman in Abuja.
The spokesman for the group, Abdulrahman Seidu, Jude Okonkwo, and other members such as Jim Alabrah; and Rosemary Izeze while addressing journalists in Abuja on Friday consequently noted that the account of Amosun “were off the mark, jaundiced, distorted, envious and bereft of any intellectual value.”
The group said Amosun’s assertions were “not only untrue, bigoted but a deliberate strategy and subterfuge to hoodwink and misinform the general public and call out Senator Adams Oshiomhole whose unblemished, unsullied and immaculate record of public service is public knowledge.”
The group stated that “Amosun’s comments are not surprising as they are pathognomonic of his rabid and uncouth nature and accused him of fanning the embers of national political discord and dissonance with a view to creating a wedge between former President Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Adams Oshiomhole whose relationship with the former President is cordial and very well known.
The group added, “We are surprised that the former Ogun State governor is yet to purge himself of extreme egotism and narcissism that were his logotype which earned him a suspension from the APC even as a sitting governor.
“For the attention of Amosun, Senator Adams Oshiomhole has paid his dues. He was in the trenches during the military era when he, Amosun was in bed with General Sani Abacha. Indeed, in a statement in 2015, then National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress, (OPC), and currently the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, whose name is also Adams like Distinguished Senator Adams Oshiomhole had cautioned then Governor Ibukunle Amosun from making frivolous allegations against people and associations. In his words then, “It is sad that people like Governor Amosun who were hiding their heads and carousing under the comfort of their families during the Abacha tenure of terror when we were fighting for the re-establishment of democracy in Nigeria are the ones reaping where they did not sow.”
The group said, “We therefore advise Amosun, a politically displaced politician to seek better ways to seek his political reintegration into national politics as he is an expired political good that is now avoided like a political hobo and plague” the Group said, warning that he should not be taken seriously as he is fond of incoherent political grandstanding whenever he seeks political attention and relevance.”
