Gov Ibikunle Amosun ,Deputy's Rift Deepens

The Ogun State Deputy Governor, Prince Segun Adesegun, on Thursday punctured the claim of the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress that they were not aware of the way he was being maltreated by Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

Adesegun, who spoke on the telephone, was reacting to  newspaper reports which quoted both the state and national publicity secretaries of the party, Mr. Sola Lawal and Chief Lai Mohammed respectively, that they were not aware that Amosun was maltreating him.

The deputy governor, who said the national leadership might not know the depth of the deprivation he was being subjected to, argued that it was not true that they were totally ignorant about it.

He said, “Lai Mohammed is my friend. Whatever he says, I will accept. If he says I didn’t send the letter to the national leadership of the party, I will accept. They may not know the depth, but they cannot claim ignorance of the way I am being treated by the governor.”

Adesegun said though the letter was meant for the governor, he copied all members of the Ogun State House of Assembly, the three senators representing the state in the Senate and seven members of the House of Representatives, representing the constituencies in the state.

He said he also made the letter available to party leaders, such as Chief Olusegun Osoba, a former state Interim Chairman of the APC, Alhaji Tajudeen Bello, the state Chairman, Alhaji Roqeeb Adeniji, Chief Olu Agemo and Alhaji Abimbola Awofeso.

He added, “Three of these elders were in my house when we accepted Amosun into our party. I was the Deputy National Treasurer of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria and also the Youth Leader under Chief Bisi Akande.”

Adesegun said if he had known that the letter cataloguing his ordeals would be published, he would have revealed more than he did.

He said, “If I knew that the letter would be published in the newspaper (The PUNCH), I would have revealed more than I did.”

Adesegun had written a letter dated October 24, 2014, to the governor.

In the 10-paragraph letter obtained by The PUNCH on Tuesday, Adesegun accused Amosun, among other things, of starving his office of funds and allocating old vehicles to his office.