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    Amosun Declares War On Osoba Over Ogun LG Election *Says “I'm The Leader Of ACN Now”



    The political tension in Ogun State has reached its boiling point, and leaders of the ruling party of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) are doing everything possible not to let it degenerated into a disaster.
    The cause of the problem is the coming local government election which is due to hold next month.
    According to what we hjeard, the two major camps in the ACN, the Amosun group and Osoba's group are now at daggers drawn, chasing each other with guns and dangerous weapons across the state over the candidates that will be fielded in all the 20 local governments in the state.
    Governor Amosun is insisting that as the chief executive officer of the state, he should be the one that will select all the candidates for the election. But this did not go down well with the Osoba group who are now feeling sidelined inn the scheme of things in the state.
    It would be recalled that Senator Amosun actually began his political journey under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2003 where he won elections to represent Ogun Central Senatorial district in the Senate. Amosun later decamped ton the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to contest for governorship in 2007 which he lost. In the last general elections, Amosun again decamped to the ACN at the last minute and was given ticket of the party to contest the election. Though the leader of ACN in Ogun state Chief Olusegun Osoba, a former governor of the state reportedly grumbled then, about the choice of Amosun as the ACN flagbearer, we learnt the National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu made a case for Amosun and the party eventually won the election and Amosun became governor.
    But since he became governor, Ibikunle Amosun has been accused severally of sidelining the original 'owners' of the party in the schemes of things while favouring his group that decamped with him from ANPP to ACN.
    This coming local government elections has however exposed Amosun's antics as he said all the local governments candidates must be from his ANPP caucus.
    Last week was hot in the state capital when several people protested the choice of candidates imposed on them by Gov. Amosun.
    We learnt that in Abeokuta South, a more popular aspirant popularly called Americo was dropped by Amosun because he is in Osoba group, and replaced with one of the boys in his camp. This reportedly led to a series of protest, but Amosun, according to sources deployed policemen to quell the protest, while some of the protesters also pulled out their guns. Our source said it was a real gun battle.
    We gathered that when Chief Segun Osoba protested, that Gov. Amosun cannot single handedly select all the candidates he reportedly told the former governor that he is now in charge of the state and could do as he wishes.
    Therefore, Amosun group which decamped from ANPP to ACN have taken over the candidates of ACN in the coming elections while the original members of the ACN are now biting their fingers.
    But former governor Segun Osoba last Thursday June 14, 2012 reported Gov. Amosun to Asiwaju Tinubu and the National chairman of the party Chief Bisi Akande who summoned Amosun to a meeting at the Ikeja, Lagos home of Tinubu on Friday, June 15, 2012.
    We learnt those invited to be at the meeting included all the National Assembly members from the state as well as a few political leaders.
    We were however not able to get the resolution of the meeting as at the time of writing this report.
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