The National Youths Democratic Network
(NYDN), on Thursday called on the
leadership of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) to suspend Ogun State Governor
Ibikunle Amosun for alleged anti-party
activities.
The group said that would serve as
punitive actions against the governor for
supporting other party in the state.
Amosun was said to has been supporting
the governorship candidate of the Allied
People’s Movement (APM), Abdulkadir
Akinlade as he publicly announced his
reluctance to support the APC candidate in
the state, Dapo Abiodun in the 2019 guber
election.
The NYDN group also called for immediate
withdrawal of the party’s ticket for Ogun
Central Senatorial district in its possession,
and be handed over to a more committed
and disciplined member from the district.
Addressing journalists at a conference on
Thursday in Abeokuta, the state capital, the
NYDN State Coordinator, Hamzat Solanke,
stated that the group is a national umbrella
body of committed, loyal and disciplined
youths in the APC.
The group said the open declaration of
support for the governorship candidate of
the Allied People’s Movement, Hon.
Adekunle Akinlade, by Amosun, was well
enough for the national leadership to
suspend him for anti-party activities.
“It is a serious infraction and insult on our
sensibility for the incumbent governor,
Senator Ibikunle Amosun to disregard
democratic decisions of the APC in Ogun
State and Nigeria to field Prince Dapo
Abiodun as its standard bearer only for
Governor Amosun to deviate from that line
to pitch his tent with the candidate of
another party, the APM, Mr. Adekunle
Akinlade, who is a current serving member
of the National Assembly and a decampee
from the APC,†he said.
NYDN also called on the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to
investigate the source of funding of the
APM as a political party from obscurity to
relative visibility of the governor.
The political group asked the State House
of Assembly to prevent the governor from
borrowing money from any financial
institutions at this point in time in the life
of his (Amosun’s) administration.
Source:
dailypost.ng/2019/01/17/ogun-apc-
crisis-youths-call-amosuns-suspension-give-
reasons/
