By Olufemi Adediran, Abeokuta
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, declared on Friday that he is yet to see any quality candidate capable of replacing him at the end of his tenure in 2019 among those jostling for the seat, adding that though he does not know who would take the seat, but affirmed he is aware of those who will not succeed him as Governor.
The Governor however disclosed that about seven politicians have already contacted him to declare their interest in the seat and sought his support towards their ambition to contest the 2019 Governorship election.
The Governor who spoke during a meeting he held with some members of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abeokuta, the State capital noted, “out of those people, I have not seen a good material for the position”.
Amosun maintained that despite the ongoing politics by some people in the State on who governs the State in 2019, he remained focus and committed to improving the lots of the people by fulfilling his electioneering campaign promises, insisting that he would not be distracted by the ambitions of these politicians.
The Governor stressed, “When the time comes for the people to pick their next Governor of the State, the people will choose and they will make the right choice.”
He seized opportunity of the occasion to debunk rumour making rounds in the social media that he abused the National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for sponsoring Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola also known as Yayi to be the next Governor of the State.
News filtered on the social media earlier during the week that Amosun at a meeting with some members of the party lambasted Tinubu for supporting Yayi and even claimed that he (Amosun) would run for the Ogun Central Senatorial seat in 2019 and would become the Senate President.
But Amosun during the meeting yesterday vehemently denied the allegations, describing those peddling it as “cowards and traitors”, challenging them to bring forward the audio evidence they claimed they had against him.
The Governor emphasised that, when the time to put the party’s candidates for various position comes, the party would sit down and arrive at a consensus, stressing, “If consensus fails then we will go to the primaries.”
Amosun said, “They told me there are three candidates, if they don’t know I will tell them, people that have told me they want to be Governor are now seven and I know that all of all those seven, there is no Governor there, the ones that can be Governor, when the time comes, we will tell our people”.
“We have responsibilities to govern, please don’t be distracted by somebody said this or that but let me quickly tell you this, I don’t know who our Governor will be but I know those who will not be Governors.”
“This is Ogun state, this is where I was born, primary school, secondary school, tertiary institution is here so if I am speaking, I am speaking from the position of strength and I know with all our elders even those that are political, I know those who will not be Governors so I know that at the appropriate time we will get our people together and say this is your sons and daughters, we will pick and whoever we pick is going to be Governor.”
“If you want something, there are several ways of getting it, imagine people said that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will finish him in Lagos and I said, don’t worry they don’t know what they are saying.
“I am from Ogun State, what will happen in another place I don’t know and I don’t talk about what I do not know. By the way, I say it all the time, that Asiwaju that you see, not money, he didn’t give me any money, no and I said it often “won ki fi oju olore gbole o”, when I needed him, he stood by me.
” I talk to him, despite all of those things people will want to say, I think they are afraid to write something about what we are doing and what we are not doing.
“So, the ones I feel they are correct is that we are confident, we are more than confident. This Ogun State, whoever is probably backing them, they are just wasting their time, this Ogun State we are no God, we are human but who will be Governor by the time we say this is the person who will be Governor, our people will chose him because we will do our work.”
“Let me say it again, the work we have done, will pay significantly to what we are going to do. The other time, I was telling second term this one is doing this and I said don’t worry, calm down, we will not campaign, we just run around to greet our people, do we not win? We won.”
” This one, it will be no campaign, our work, all of our leaders, those outside too, all of them will be there for us and we will win.”
“So whoever that wants to waste money, warned them, they are just wasting their time and money so for me, whatever I am going to say, I will say it, whether is Mr A, B, C, with the way we are brought up, we are not cowards and we are no traitors.”
” I will tell you sir what you are doing is wrong, this is what you should do, if people should tell me that I listen. He that is not to be counsel, can never be saved.
” For me, I don’t hide under one finger to fight, if there is anything we will say it the way it is. They call me they want to do any rejoinder, I say what are you writing, I’m here, if they have video and they are not coward let them bring it out.
“In Ondo, we have won, we will continue to win. If they have money, let them keep it, when there is time for us to spend money, we will keep it and we are even maintaining it now, when is time we will spend very well for our people, we will go round and say this is it and this is what we want to do, we are no cowards, we will spend money, we will not steal money, don’t bother yourself that they are writing this, they are writing that.
“They told me there are three candidates, if they don’t know I will tell them, people that have told me they want to be Governor are now seven and I know that all of those seven, no Governor there, the ones that can be Governor, when the time comes, we will tell our people.
“I know that they don’t have responsibilities for governance, don’t let them distract us because they mention it and I am here in person that is why I am just saying that so they should be ready, even all our people whether state Assembly, whether members of the House of Representatives, senators, if you want to be something, when the time comes we will know.
“If you want to be something, when the time comes and I am saying it openly and I am in front of the camera, don’t bother yourself because they are just two things, those that want to be Governor or those that think they want to get senate or house of representatives or something, I don’t know, if it is that, just be calm, the way we do our things, we sit with our elders, we say what we do here.
“If consensus fails, everybody should go to the primary, that is the way it is done, our fathers are here, we know how to do our things in Ogun state, it is not by hiding under something, when the times come we will be ready, they have said a lot of things but for me, we should not be distracted, we should continue with what we are doing.
“Our leaders are here and for me, we should not be talking about politics now, we should begin to talk about how we are going to better the lot of our people so that by the time I think we should talk about politics, we should have spend two years, maybe the third year, here we are everybody wants to talk, so, please don’t be distracted.
“Please, tell them all those things they said I said, if they are not coward let them release whatever they have and I am saying openly here again and again, if it is about Ogun State, we are confidence, we are human not God we know those who will not be Governor, we know ourselve, we will tell you, you will not go anywhere because we will go round.
“It is our people let them go round but when they are now calling black blue even you think they have, they don’t have anymore, they should control concentrate on what they want to do and leave us to be doing our own.”
Ogun State 2019
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