Mass defection set to rock APC in Ogun state as crisis reaches point of no return

The APC in Ogun state might experience a mass defection soon, Chief Olusegunn Osoba has hinted. According to reports from ThisDay, the former Governor of Ogun State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Olusegun Osoba, Thursday hinted on the possibility of a mass defection of loyalists to a yet-to-be disclosed political party. According to him, the crisis in the ruling party in the state had got to a point of no return. Osoba, who spoke in his residence while addressing members of his party during the consultative forum, ruled out the possibility of working with the state Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, of and his faction of the APC with a total rejection of the sharing formula of party offices. The former governor, however, disclosed that himself and the party executive members had reached a consensus not to negotiate with anyone or group with regard to the ongoing crisis in the APC in the state. On this note, the former governor had directed his loyalists to commence compilation of a new members’ register in the 236 wards across the state. He warned his members not to allow themselves to be deceived by the antics of those pretending to be looking for a solution to the crisis in the APC in the state. Osoba also decried the setting up of an elders’ committee to look into the crisis in the APC in the state, saying the current situation had gone beyond what such a body could handle. “They are only looking for sentiments; they are looking for ways to eat you up. Let them go their way,” he said. The former governor added that he and the members of the executive loyal to him had resolved that he would not allow anyone or group to appeal or prevail on him to forgive those currently opposed to their faction. He said: “Your executive members met me and said you (members) have resolved not to work with anyone again; that you have resolved to go , your own way. “Secondly, they said you have rejected harmonisation and that you don’t want any sharing formula with them, be it 80:30 or 70:30 because you are the authentic and original APC members. Is that so? “They said you are the ones who have the tellers; who obtained your tellers individually for the congresses; you are the ones who followed what the party guidelines say and so you don’t want sharing formula. Is that so?”