Amosun, Osoba to meet again weekend
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta
Another peace meeting to reconcile feuding chiefs and factions of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun state has been slated for this weekend in Ijebu-Ode. P.M. News learnt that the meeting will this time around include all the members of the National Assembly elected from the state.
The first meeting held yesterday at the palace of the Awujale, the Paramount ruler of
Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona was attended by Governor Ibikunle Amosun and a national leader of the APC, also former governor of the State, Chief Olusegun Osoba. Also in attendance was the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Michael Aremu Gbadebo, Okukenu IV, who reportedly facilitated the meeting.
According to a source, “Alake has been on the matter since the ending of last year. He had met with the two politicians separately and when the incident of January 9, 2014 at the party Secretariat occurred and news went around of what both sides said, Alake felt, that, if the matter was not urgently attended to, it may boomerang.
“While Baba was still on his mission to see that the two Egba sons sheath their swords, another fight broke out, now it also involved another Egba son, Senator Obadara and the aftermath is what you and I are now seeing, season of letters. Alake contacted Awujale, who he believed is highly respected by Osoba being his ‘son’ and the meeting was summoned for Sunday evening but was later shifted to yesterday”, the source revealed.
Awujale was also said to have appealed to both Amosun and Osoba to call their supporters to order.Although yesterday’s meeting was deadlocked, the enlarged meeting slated for the weekend may forge some compromise.
One of the major actors in the conflict, Senator Gbenga Kaka welcomed the role being played by the Awujale and Alake. He spoke in an interview with P.M.News today.
The APC in the state is split down the middle by two contending forces, the SIA group, under the control of Governor Amosun and the Matagbamole group, associated with Chief Osoba.
The disagreement between the two groups recently resulted in violence between their supporters in Abeokuta and Wasimi in Ewekoro Local Government Area of the State.
Alake was quoted to have told the two gladiators at the meeting that, “you are a pride to Egba kingdom and you should not do anything that will truncate the love and respect people have for you”, calling for
truce between them.
It was gathered that Osoba expressed disappointment in the attitude of the governor since he became
governor.
The governor was accused of destabilizing the party because of his leadership style. He was also accused of alienating many leaders, who were instrumental to his emergence as the party candidate during the 2011 election
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