Asiwaju, Osinbajo, Amosun and Dapo Abiodun  – PART 1

By Akanni Oladimeji Balogun

In race towards the Ogun APC primaries in 2019, Amosun had pocketed all the 40 elective offices which he announced publicly via “Breaking News” at the presidential lodge in Abeokuta. Initially Dapo Abiodun was supposed to be given the Senatorial ticket of Ogun East under the 40/40 arrangement of Amosun but along the line, things fell apart between the two.

Dapo Abiodun got Osinbajo and Kemi Adeosun involved but they tried endlessly to make peace but a Amosun whom power has absolutely corrupted, decided to drag his old time friend Dapo Abiodun in the mud. At this point, Dapo Abiodun himself vowed to go for the number one seat himself to show Amosun that before he ventured into politics, he had already won an election as a Senator in 1998 under UNCP. This was what led Dapo Abiodun to Asiwaju Tinubu, Gbajabiamila and YAYI.

For those that you don’t know, Dapo Abiodun (DA) in company of Adeeyo in 2015 led Amosun to the palace of Awujale to beg Akinrogun Osoba so that Amosun can have a smooth 2015 election. The same way Amosun prostrated at the hilltop home of OBJ to beg Baba Adebutu to shut his vault against GNI so he can also have a smooth 2015 election…. All these people are still alive!

Dapo Abiodun approached Asiwaju and Gbaja because he was aware that the YAYI structure was a formidable one and he needed that structure to fight Amosun. DA got Asiwaju to pave way for him at the national level. Asiwaju was practically moving up and down for DA to have a successful primary against an Amosun who had 100% party structure. In all these, the VP was not in the picture yet! This was why Amosun kept on ranting and made several newspaper publications accusing Asiwaju and Akinrogun of rigging the primary in favour of DA.

Now this is where the story gets interesting….

Amosun being close to Buhari made several frantic visit to the villa to get the President to direct Oshiomole to overturn the primary that produced DA but he made a fundamental flaw, Amosun refused to participate in that primary which the party Chairman had pointed out to the President.

Now, the VP came into the picture….

DA was also disturbed and needed a backing right inside the presidency. He approached the VP who truly tried his best until a point where Buhari was pressing Oshiomole so hard. At this point, the VP does not want to get into the bad books of the President and he approached Oshiomole. The VP suggested that the primary should be conducted again. Words of the VP to Oshio got to Asiwaju which of course infuriated Asiwaju. Asiwaju only urged Oshiomole to stand his ground. It was successful at the end of the day!

……to be continued