Big Shift In Ogun As Amosun’s Men Unite With Abiodun, Put Gbenga Daniel In Isolation

Years of acrimony between the immediate past governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and his successor, Governor Dapo Abiodun appear about being resolved after Amosun’s men on Friday quietly returned to the Abiodun led mainstream of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

GWG.ng reports that Abiodun emerged as Amosun’s successor against the will of the former governor who backed candidates in other parties to fight Abiodun in 2019 and in 2023.

The penultimate governor of the state, Senator Gbenga Daniel who had himself had historic problems with Amosun had in 2019 returned to the APC dumping Atiku Abubakar to as it was then alleged help Abiodun win the 2019 governorship election.

However, Daniel and Abiodun have recently fallen apart an evidenced by the five storey multi-billion property of the Daniels in Ijebu-Ode.

However, on Friday a former chairman of the party and a known loyalist of Amosun’s, Derin Adebiyi, whose tenure was dissolved in 2019 by the Adams Oshiomhole-led APC National Working Committee, for alleged anti-party activities crossed the bridge to return to the APC after opposing Abiodun in 2019 and 2023.

It was gathered that the meeting with Abiodun had Amosun’s approval.

Receiving the Amosun emissaries at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta, on Friday, Governor Abiodun said:

“I want to congratulate your sense of loyalty to leadership, which I will say is not only commendable, it is enviable.

“This is a culture that we must promote and entrench. It is a culture that is fast eroding; it is a culture that we are fast losing. Loyalty is 100 percent.

“For some others, they move once things are not working well, but for you, you stay put. This sense of loyalty is worthy of emulation. We must appreciate the fact that there can only be one leader in a party at a time.

“Even when we have ambitions and desires, we must subordinate ourselves 100% to leadership and believe that it is in that subordination that will allow us to flourish and achieve our objectives, our dreams, our desires and aspirations, not by forming factions or by breaking away.

“Because by so doing, it only weakens the fabric of that collective union that we call our party. You must appreciate that there can be only one leader of the party at a time in the state, and that leader is the governor.

“As the leader of the party, I appreciate the task bestowed on me and it is my duty to work towards individual and collective welfare of our members,” the governor noted.

“Let us the past behind us. Let us promote what unites us as a family. I welcome you back. The future of Ogun State is in your hands and it is for us for the taking. The same joy the father of the prodigal son received his lost son back home, the same way I receive you today.

“To those who did not leave, please let us receive our brothers and sisters back. To those who are joining us, please let us display a sense of loyalty. I can assure you, you will be fully integrated. ”

The State Chairman of APC, Yemi Sanusi welcomed them while, Adebiyi said they were back to contribute their quota to the fortunes of the party.

GWG.ng reports that the development now isolates the penultimate governor of the state, Senator Gbenga Daniel as the only former governor now against Governor Abiodun.

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