Ogun State governor, lbikunle Amosun Thursday denied any involvement in the reported arrest of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress
Ogun State governor, lbikunle Amosun Thursday denied any involvement in the reported arrest of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole. Amosun met with President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House behind closed doors.
Amosun and his Imo State counterpart, Rochas Okorocha, have engaged Oshiomhole in a battle for supremacy over the latter’s decision to deny their anointed candidates tickets for the 2019 general election. After the meeting, Amosun was asked by State House correspondents if he had a hand in Oshiomhole’s current ordeal with the DSS.
Responding, he said by the question, he was being conferred with oversight power over the embattled national chairman which he said was not within his jurisdiction. According to him, if there is any need for him to fight, he goes all out to slug it out with the person concerned without having to hand his battle to anyone.
He said, “I think you are probably giving me an oversight role and I am not a security person, so clearly I think that question will not be for me. I don’t have to hide under a finger to fight. If there is need for me to put my views across, you know me by now that I will do it.
Asked for his reaction to the report that Oshiomhole might have fled the country following his encounter with Department of State Services (DSS) at the weekend, Amosun said, “I have told you those things are beyond my pedigree and you are asking me questions that I am not well suited for. The one that I think I should talk about we have said it loud and clear that we don’t need to add any other thing.” Asked again on the reason for his visit to the State House, he said, “I always come like this and I know that you will want to ask me this and that and that is what you are doing, but clearly and talking seriously, I think that all that needs to be said.
“I think all of you can attest to that, that has been said loud and clear and I think saying anything further would amount to probably sounding like a broken gramophone. I think I have said all that we need to say and we did it loud and clear.”
