Former Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has openly ditched Ogun sitting governor, Dapo Abiodun and has pointed at his preferred candidate for Ogun State 2023 gubernatorial election.
Speaking in an interview with CNN Yoruba on Monday, Amosun made the revelation that he would be supporting his party’s presidential candidate, Tinubu at the federal level, while at the state level he will be supporting the governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Biyi Otegbeye, who is the current managing director of Regency Alliance Insurance PLC.
In 2019, the Ogun State All Progressives Congress party had chosen Dapo Abiodun to contest the election as Amosun’s anointed candidate, Adekunle Akinlade.
Akinlade eventually contested and lost the election under the umbrella of the Allied Peoples Movement party.
Abiodun, who took over from Amosun in 2019 is seeking a second term in 2023 on the platform of the APC.
Speaking to CNN, Amosun said, “For the presidential poll, I can assure you, both right, left and centre, we are supporting one person (Tinubu). I believe we are supporting one person. On the governorship poll, that’s a different ball game. I don’t belong there.
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“For the governorship, that is different I don’t hide behind one finger to fight. That’s why people say to me ‘don’t say that.’ On governorship, my supporters and I, we don’t belong to that side. I do not support APC on that side, Biyi Otegbeye is the person I am supporting and ADC is the party.”
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