Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, has continued to mount pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomole to substitute the candidate of the party in the state, Prince Dapo Abiodun for his anointed candidate, Isaq Akinlade.
It will be recalled that in the past few weeks, Amosun in his desperate move to ensure that Dapo Abiodun was removed had dragged first class royal fathers and Islamic clerics from the state and other notable personalities to appease to President Buhari on his preferred candidate.
He had also dragged Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi and his counterpart from Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu to Buhari for same reason.
Amosun who is nursing ambition of becoming the leader of the party in South West is bitter that his efforts to ensure that Akinlade got the ticket of the party proved abortive.
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The governor had also exploited his pound of flesh and vent his anger on Hon. Bode Mustapha who had been screened for the Chairman of Nigeria Insurance Deposits Commission (NDIC) by prevailing on President Buhari who yesterday accept to his request by replacing him the politician with Ronke Shokefun, one of the commissioners in the state .
Newdawn sources revealed that the decision of Oshiomole to travel out of the country after his reported interrogation by Department of State Service might not be unconnected to plan to resist any move by Amosun to get the President to prevail on him to effect the change of candidate before the closure of deadline for substitution by the political parties.
