Ogun PDP accuses Amosun of failing electorate

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun

The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has said the All Progressives Congress government in the state has failed the electorate. It said people in the state were suffering from the misrule by Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

The state Chairman, PDP, Mr. Adebayo Dayo, in an interview with our correspondent, said the electorate, who sought an alternative political party at the 2011 governorship poll, had seen that the APC had no better welfare package for the people.

He said, “Whether anybody likes it or not, we are going to defeat Governor Ibikunle Amosun in 2015 because the people in our community do not like what he is doing presently.

“He has no programme for the educational and health systems in the state. He has nothing for workers or anybody but only himself. The electorate will show him in 2015 that the PDP has better programmes for them.

“For somebody who has no programme to come into government, he is in government by mistake. He did not dream of winning the (governorship) election. He won the election without thinking about how to govern and governance is becoming difficult for him.

“In 2015, the electorate will not make the mistake again. Ogun State people now know that the PDP government is better than the APC government.”

The ruling APC, however, described Dayo’s claims as mischievous. The party said the Amosun-led administration had in two years achieved what the PDP could not in its eight years leadership of the state.

The state Publicity Secretary, APC, Mr. Sola Lawal, argued that Amosun would not have engaged in legal and electoral battles for seven years, if he was not determined to right a wrong in the state.

He said, “I think it will be uncharitable, dishonest and hopeless, to say the least, for anybody to insinuate that somebody, who contested for a particular office for seven years before he won, is not prepared. What else would he have been doing during those years?

“That is why within two years of being in government, he has caused more revolution in the art of governance in Ogun State much more than his PDP predecessor’s eight years put together.”

Lawal described Dayo’s claim that the PDP would reclaim the state in 2015 as “the height of slumberous dream.”

He said the Action Congress of Nigeria beat the PDP in a landslide in the 2011 governorship election, saying it would perform better at the poll in 2015, having merged with other parties to form the APC.

“The PDP in Ogun State is in a sorry state. We pity them because a sinking man will hold unto any straw on its way, even if it is a thread. It is all about their stomach,” Lawal added.