Amosun’s endorsement: Ogun PDP disowns ex-LG flagbearers

The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday disowned the party’s former local government council chairmanship candidates who recently endorsed Governor Ibikunle Amosun for a second term in office.

The PDP described Amosun’s endorsement by the ex-council chairmanship flagbearers as a “smokescreen” just as a member of the state House of Assembly representing Ipokia constituency on the platform of the party, Abiodun Akovoyon denied defecting to the Labour Party.

Twelve former PDP council chairmanship candidates had on Wednesday in Abeokuta, announced their defection to the newly registered All Progressives Congress. They also endorsed the governor for another fresh term.

But the PDP in a statement yesterday by its State Publicity Secretary, Waliu Oladipupo in Abeokuta, said said that the former candidates were not on the list of its flagbearers for the last council poll in the state.

The party described the action of the former council candidates as “arrangee endorsements.”

“These people were not at any time chairmanship candidates of the PDP in Ogun State. It is part of the desperate politics of endorsement and validation being played by Amosun.

“These people are not known to us. They are impostors. They do not belong to the list submitted to the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission by the authentic state executive committee of the PDP, under the leadership of Mr. Adebayo Dayo. Perhaps, they are part of the fifth columnists we said are working for Amosun’s re-election.”