By Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji
February 11, 2011 10:14PM
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Ogun State governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Ibikunle Amosun, on Friday dumped the party which has just concluded arrangements to begin its campaign tour across the state.

Mr. Amosun’s sudden decision hit the state like thunder. His Media Aide, Bola Adeyemi revealed that he {Amosun} has defected to the Congress for Progressive Change whose presidential candidate is the former head of state, Muhammadu Buhari.

Sources said the decision to leave the party followed allegations that the party hierarchy failed to fully incorporate his supporters in the sharing formula of elective posts.

He alleged that apart from the governorship slot given him, all other elective posts were given to a faction of the party who were members of the old Action Congress (AC) that metamorphosed into Action Congress of Nigeria {ACN}.

Mr Adeyemi said that “some of the candidates presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission are unknown personalities who could not win election but were favoured by ACN leadership at the expense of credible and sellable ones.”

A source who prefers to be anonymous argued that, “they gave him only (4) four House of Assembly members, no senate or house of representatives seat and the deputy governor, Segun Adesegun was also impressed on him.

“All they want is to naked him, they don’t want him to have a say in the government, they want him to be a toothless governor,” he said.

Efforts to speak with Mr. Amosun proved abortive, and party leaders were said to be at a crucial meeting to find his replacement.

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There is no short cut to it.
A lack of internal democracy will wreck ACN.

come to think of it, why is Amosu complaining?was he not also handpicked and imposed?
was there a primary election that he won?
This man is on his fourth party in how many years?
Barbarians!!!

@ topic
What would lead the candidate of a strong grounded party to decamp to a smaller one. Only time shall tell.

From frying pan to fire!

Did he dumps ACN or ACN dump him to accommodate DANIEL ( who will soon become their candidate). PDP kept throwing confusion into the camp of their enemies.

So, new baby born CPC with Bhuari/Bakare will now win Ogun State?. AMOSUN guy like to be in opposition forever.

OBJ may not be here with us much longer (as in his age and passing on to the next live whether in 10, 20, 30 years or his agility to run things)but he has thrown a good winning dice, divide all the PDP enemies and conquer them.

This OBJ dey laugh O

vigasimple:

Did he dumps ACN or ACN dump him to accommodate DANIEL ( who will soon become their candidate). PDP kept throwing confusion into the camp of their enemies.

So, new baby born CPC with Bhuari/Bakare will now win Ogun State?. AMOSUN guy like to be in opposition forever.

OBJ may not be here with us much longer (as in his age and passing on to the next live whether in 10, 20, 30 years or his agility to run things)but he has thrown a good winning dice, divide all the PDP enemies and conquer them.

This OBJ dey laugh O

Daniel is on his second term as Governor. he cannot be Governor beyond May 2011. He can therefore not become the candidate of the ACN.

@topic . I suggest we wait for more info. This announcement does not make much sense . Amosun stands no chance of winning with the CPC because they have nothing on the ground in Ogun State. The only other option is that he made this alleged choice based on strong conviction. We will see.

Another dumb de-marketing strategy by the Poverty Development people, echoed by Tribune newspapers.