Ogun ACN guber candidate dumps party for CPC 

From NIYI OGUNGBOLA, Abeokuta
Posted: Sunday, February 13, 2011

THE Action Congress of Nigieria (ACN), Ogun State chapter, has suffered a major blow yesterday as her governorship candidate, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, who emerged at the party’s primary has defected to Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
Confirming this to New Nigerian on Sunday, Senator Amosun’s media man, Alhaji Bola Adeyemi, in a phone interview said that his boss had defected to CPC following the alleged hardened posture of ACN leaderships.
According to him, Amosun was “stripped naked” giving him only governorship slot while all other elective posts were given to a faction of the party who were members of old Action Congress (AC) that formed ACN with a faction of ANPP where Senator Ibikunle Amosun originally belonged.
Adeyemi said that some of the candidates presented to INEC were unknown personalities who could not win election but were favoured by ACN leadership at the expense of credible and sellable ones.
New Nigerian on Sunday also gathered from ACN supporters loyal to Amosun who said they had no choice but to dump ACN for CPC because the plan of ACN leaderships was to impeach Amosun six months after if he will have won the governorship election.
“They gave him only four house of assembly members, no senate or house of representatives seat and the deputy governor, Prince Segun Adesegun, was also impressed on him. All they want is to strip him naked. They don’t want him to have a say in the government; they want him to be a toothless governor,” he said.
Meanwhile, all efforts to speak with the leader of the party in Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, and the secretary of the party, Alhaji Abimbola Awofeso, were futile as the duo told our correspondent that they were attending a meeting.
Senator Amosun himself did not answer all calls put across to his line for further confirmation by our correspondent.