By Waliat Musa
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Youth League, Ogun State, has called on national leadership of the party to immediately suspend a former governor of the state and Senator-elect for Ogun East Senatorial District, Gbenga Daniel, for working against the party in the March 18, 2023 governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state.
The APC Youth League, which equally urged the party leadership to strip Daniel of every privilege of being a member of the ruling party, also demanded that the former governor be compelled to refund the money he got from the APC to prosecute his own election.
These calls were contained in a letter entitled, “Need to Sanction Daniel,” dated March 31, 2023 and jointly signed by its Co-ordinator, Fayomi Yunus and Secretary, Abbas Olanrewaju Ismail.
According to the letter addressed to the National Chairman of the APC, the former governor was alleged to have worked against the interest of the party during the elections, a situation that almost scuttled the chances of victory for the party at the polls.
While further calling on the APC national leadership to decide appropriate action against Daniel as stipulated in the party’s constitution with regard to such anti-party tendencies, the APC Youth League with membership across the 236 wards in the state, said a discreet investigation revealed that the former governor had several nocturnal meetings ahead of polls with members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, with surreptitious plans to work against the re-election of Governor Dapo Abiodun.
The statement added that “Daniel was tracked and discovered to have led the PDP machinery that worked for the PDP governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, in Ogun East with attendant propaganda instruments led by his prominent aides against Governor Abiodun without any rebuttal from the former governor.”
Source: The Guardian
