Governor Ibikunle Amosun has revealed that the list of 40 candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 elective positions in the state has already been drawn and dares whoever that is not comfortable with it to meet him and the team on the day of direct primary.
Amosun added that the party elders are aware of the selected 40 candidates and that the list will be displayed on Monday at the appropriate location.
The list included the governorship candidate, Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade, and his running mate, Mrs. Peju Adebajo, Amosun’s Commissioner for Agriculture, from Sagamu.
The governor made this known at the Government House, Isale-Igbein, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while addressing party members from Ogun East and Ogun West shortly after the former had adopted the candidature of Hon. Akinlade as the party’s governorship candidate even as the chairman of the party, Chief Derin Adebiyi, used the occasion to announce Mrs. Peju Adebajo as Akinlade’s running mate.
Amosun recalled that some people, who joined APC in the state in mid afternoon, were accepted in the spirit of “magnanimity” but said such people do not want to follow the right procedure in dealing with issues in the party.
He noted that he met the party in “carcass” in Ogun State and had to build it to the attractive APC it has become, wondering if he had left it unattended to, whether such people would have had a place to run to today.
“We have said we are having consensus. We have done the consensus, we have arrived at the candidates, not just for the governor, we have arrived at all the 40 candidates in Ogun State.
“We have 26 Assembly members, nine House of Representatives members, three senatorial members, deputy governor and the governor. We are going to display the names of the 40 on Monday.
“Anybody that is not in agreement, we are not going to say he is not a member of our party, they will come and try; that is the beauty of democracy.
“By the grace of God, by May 29, 2019, Akinlade will be our governor. I congratulate everyone for the success recorded by the party, and appreciate all other aspirants for their cooperation. We will have a landslide victory in the coming elections.
“The entire state in unity has adopted Akinlade. We thank God for the success we have achieved in Ogun State. No state in the federation has achieved what we have achieved in this issue.”
Earlier, elders of the party from Ogun East met with the state party leaders among who were the national financial secretary, Alhaji Tajudeen Bello, and Derin Adebiyi.
Adebiyi later presented Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade to the leaders of the party from Ogun East, seeking their support.