In preparation for the March 11, 2023 election, Ibikunle Amosun, a former governor of Ogun State, led the campaign on Wednesday for Biyi Otegbeye, the African Democratic Congress candidate for governor in the state.
According to reports gathered by ValidViewNetwork, it was known that Amosun claimed that anytime he considered the policies and procedures implemented by his successor, Dapo Abiodun, he experienced sadness.
Amosun said, “Before we left, we had put Ogun State in the category of greatness and development. Ogun State, during my time with the support of God and our people, rose from the 35th position before I left to the second or third position.
“Go and see where Ogun State is today, but that is not what we are here to do; we are here to take Ogun State back to that great way.
“Ogun State was once known as a better state, but now, check our education sector, our health sector, our youth employment rate, and many others. We are here to take the mandate back.
“We want someone that can continue what we have done. We are here to take it back. Look at Lagos and other states. Look at what they are doing. I want development; I want progress for Ogun.”
Amosun defended his decision to go with Otegbeye by stating that Ogun West has not produced a governor for the state.
The former governor asserted that he was still a member of the All-Progressives Congress and that his decision to back only Tinubu and oppose Abiodun’s bid for reelection had not changed.
He said, “I am APC; when I was in Abuja for the presidential primary, I said I would do Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, but, in Ogun State, by the grace of God and the support of all of us in Ogun State, it is Biyi Otegbeye.”
The former governor claimed that his administration spent N6.9 billion on 15 model schools and that N3 billion was spent on renovations by the current administration.
The governor, in a statement titled “Amosun keeps lying as he joins ADC” issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, said he had put a lie to the claim made by Amosun that he renovated a model school built for N830m with N3bn.
“As a governor, he promised to do everything and did virtually nothing. He abandoned most of them after claiming to have paid 100 per cent for them. We are known as a promise-keeping administration. We promised only what we could do and did all that we promised,” Somorin said.
While it was not unexpected that Amosun joined the ADC, he continued, it was unexpected that he was savoring the lies that Otegbeye, the candidate for his new party, had launched last week.
He said, “While Otegbeye was awe-struck by the finesse of the Gateway City Centre and put a figure of N7bn on a N350m project, Amosun at the flag off of Otegbeye campaign rally lied to have completed a Model School at Kobape and slammed N3bn as renovation cost on the said school.
“It is a shame that the former governor does not know the difference between converting an abandoned project to a socially desirable Tech Hub at this age and time.
“Rather than applauding the ingenuity of Governor Abiodun for converting the moribund model school to a functional tech hub within three weeks of assuming office, Amosun is resorting to blackmail.”
