I’m Not Responsible for Oshiomhole’s Trouble with DSS – Amosun

Malik Yahya/

The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has denied being responsible for the reported arrest and interrogation of the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, by the Department of State Services.

Amosun made his position known today in an interview with State House correspondents, before meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

When asked that media reports suggested that he and Okorocha orchestrated Oshiomhole’s investigation, Amosun replied: “I think you are probably giving me an oversight role and I am not a security person, so clearly I think that question will not be for me.

“I don’t have to hide under a finger to fight. If there is need for me to put my views across, you know me by now that I will do it.”

When he was also asked to react to the reports that the APC chairman has fled the country, the governor said: “I have told you that you are asking me questions that I am not well suited for. The one that I have to talk about, we have said it loud and clear that it doesn’t even need adding anything.”

Amosun has been at loggerheads with Oshiomhole over the decision of the party’s National Working Committee to recognise Dapo Abiodun as the governorship candidate in his state as against his preferred candidate, Abiodun Akinlade.

Today’s meeting was believed to be part of ongoing reconciliatory efforts by the President towards resolving the crisis that trailed the primary elections of the ruling party.

Amosun is among the APC governors at the forefront of the campaign for the removal of Oshiomhole as the party’s national chairman for the role he allegedly played during the primary elections.