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Ogun APC crisis: TESCOM boss resigns, alleges victimizationFrom SEGUN OLATUNJI, Abeokuta
The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State yesterday took a new dimension with the Chairman of the state Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM, Olubukunola Onabanjo accusing Governor Ibikunle Amosun of witch-hunting her due to her closeness to his estranged godfather, Chief Olusegun Osoba.
Onabanjo, who is the daughter of the first civilian governor of the state, Chief Bisi Onabanjo made this accusation in her letter of resignation dated November 18 and sent to Governor Amosun and a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent in Abeokuta on Wednesday.
Onabanjo, in the two-page letter to the governor said her resignation as the chairman of TESCOM would take effect from Monday (December 1).
The internal crisis rocking the APC in Ogun since the conduct of their congresses last June has divided the ruling party, pitting the governor’s camp against that of Osoba.
Osoba’s loyalists in the APC in the state, including the three senators, five House of Representatives members and lawmakers in the state House of Assembly recently defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
The state Deputy Governor, Prince Segun Adesegun, who is also Osoba’s loyalist has been at loggerheads with Governor Amosun, his boss.
The TESCOM boss, however, noted in her resignation letter that in spite of the governor’s earlier accusation that she had a “soft spot” for Chief Osoba, who is also a former governor of the state, she had never been found to have worked against Amosun or the state government throughout the duration of her appointment.
According to her, she owed no one any apology for the over forty-year-old relationship that had existed between the Onabanjo and the Osoba families.
Onabanjo added that she was therefore not ready to sacrifice the long-standing cordial relationship between the two families for “political gains and consideration.”
She further noted that she could not continue to pretend to remain in Amosun’s government when it was already clear that, “it is too late in the day for me to clothe myself in borrowed robes.”
The TESCOM boss’ resignation letter partly read: “Whilst thanking your Excellency for the opportunity given me to serve the good people of Ogun State, I wish to put the following on record for posterity.
“In spite of your Excellency’s accusation that I have “a soft spot” for Chief Olusegun Osoba, I wish to state that I have never undermined your office or the government of Ogun State. I enjoy warm, cordial and healthy relationship with Chief Olusegun Osoba.
Efforts by our correspondent to get the reaction of the state government to Onabanjo’s letter of resignation and the accusation against Governor Amosun contained therein proved abortive.
The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Alhaji Yusuf Olaniyonu neither picked the calls put through to his phones nor replied to the SMS text sent to him.
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