Ogun councilors deny support for Dapo Abiodun

Adejoke Adeleye/Abeokuta

Elected councilors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in all the 20 local government areas of Ogun State have denied pledging their support for Prince Dapo Abiodun as the party’s flagbearer for the 2019 governorship election in the state.

The councilors declared that they would not support anybody other than Abdul-Kabir Adekunle Akinlade a.k.a Triple A, the party’s consensus candidate for the governorship election.

The councilors made this known at a special meeting to review the conclusion reached at a town hall meeting with Governor Ibikunle Amosun on the 2019 Budget.

The councilors denied supporting the APC governorship candidate.

Speaking on behalf of the councilors in the three senatorial districts, Ololade Kazeem, Jide Opafola and Tunde Makinde, alleged that the mandate freely given by APC members in Ogun State to Akinlade on October 2, 2018, was “stolen”.

According to them, the indirect primary election which produced Akinlade as the APC governorship candidate was conducted throughout the wards in Ogun State and witnessed by security agents and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

They described the direct primary election, witnessed by the election panel sent from the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja, which returned Dapo Abiodun as the party’s candidate, as “fraudulent and a daylight robbery”.