Anti-party activities: APC youth group demands Ogun ex-gov suspension

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Anti-party activities: APC youth group demands Ogun ex-gov suspension

The All Progressives Congress National Youth League, Ogun State Coordinate, has asked the national leadership of the party to immediately suspend a former governor of the state and senator-elect for Ogun East senatorial district, Gbenga Daniel.

They premised their demand on the basis that the former governor allegedly worked against the party in the March 18 Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state.

They made the call in a letter entitled ‘Need to Sanction Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Senator-Elect, Ogun East Senatorial District of Ogun State’, dated March 31st.

The letter which was addressed to the National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was jointly signed by Fayomi Yunus and Abbas Olanrewaju Ismail, the State Coordinator and State Secretary of the League, respectively.

The group asked the party leadership to compel the former governor to refund the money he got from the APC for his election.

According to them, the ex-governor was found out to have vehemently worked against the interest of the APC during the elections in the state, a situation which almost scuttled the chances of victory of the party at the poll.

“It was utterly strange that Otunba Gbenga Daniel could go that low to have compromised

the sanctity of party loyalty and solidarity, by forming an unholy alliance with the Peoples

Democratic Party, his supposed former party to stop the reelection of Governor Dapo Abiodun.

“Otunba benga Daniel was tracked and discovered to have led the PDP machinery that

worked for Ladi Adebutu in gun East with attendant propaganda instruments led by

Daniel’s prominent aides against our candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun, without any rebuttal

from Daniel himself.

“It is no more news that Otunba Gbenga Daniel consciously collapsed the remnant of his

political structure for Ladi Adebutu and worked against the APC that gave him ticket and

also sponsored his election.

“It is now obvious that the original notion behind the defection of Governor Gbenga Daniel

into APC in 2021 was to deceptively secure the ticket of our party having realized the PDP was no more popular in his domain and could not win any credible election, then to later serve as a mole to destroy our party to the advantage of his original party, the PDP.

“It is against this backdrop that we call on the national leadership of our great party to demand for immediate suspension of Otunba Gbenga Daniel from our party, the APC, and strip him of every privilege of membership.

“We also demand that the national leadership should ask Otunba Gbenga Daniel to refund

every kobo he got from the party to prosecute his election and further decide the appropriate action against him as stipulated by our constitution with regard to such anti-party tendencies,” the statement read in part.