…Details How Amosun Nominated Crooked Adeosun to Buhari to Rubbish Presidency…
…Urges Buhari to Halt Amosun’s Plots to further Dent Nigeria’s Profile
By The New Diplomat’s Political Intelligence Desk
A global coalition committed to democratic and transparent governance in Nigeria known as the CDGN has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the United Nations Headquarters in New York to call Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State to order over alleged attempts by the later to further rubbish Nigeria’s rising global profile in the comity of nations in general and Buhari’s international image in particular.
The Coalition for Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria (CDGN) with office in New York in a petition addressed to President Buhari and copies submitted to the UN Secretary General’s Office accused Governor Amosun of plotting surreptitiously to tarnish Nigeria’s rising global image through imposition and nomination of persons with dubious and questionable credentials to the Presidency, stressing that “it was Governor Amosun’s shameful nomination of Kemi Adeosun, a crooked lady, who criminally forged an NYSC certificate to procure appointment, first as Ogun State Commissioner for Finance under Governor Amosun’s watch and later as Federal Finance Minister…thereby bringing Nigeria’s international profile to grave disrepute and inflicting unquantifiable damage on President Buhari administration’s image…” that almost tore the country into shred. ”In all of these and while the criminal drama lasted, Governor Amosun, the man who forwarded Adeosun’s name to Buhari kept sealed lips, uttered nothing and pretended as if he knew nothing about the sordid drama while the Presidency and Nigeria as country bore the shameful brunt of his alleged misdeeds.”
The CDGN cautioned that rather than Governor Amosun showing grave remorse and tendering public apology to Nigerians over the irreparable damage he inflicted on Nigeria’s image by nominating someone who criminally skipped NYSC and proceeded to illegally procure a fake NYSC exemption Certificate to procure nomination for Ministerial position (Kemi Adeosun), he is currently busy trying again “to impose one Adekunle Akinlade on the people of Ogun State, an act which cannot Stand and should never be tolerated at any rate because the people of Ogun State have in a transparent, democratic, fair and open process and primary, chosen Dapo Abiodun, a well known professional and a solid technocrat to take Ogun State to the next level.”
The CDGN asked the Presidency to call Amosun to order because his current acts amount to further clandestine moves to rubbish the country’s rising international profile. ”How can somebody who nominated a crooked lady as Minister now want to dictate who would be Governor of a viable, well educated, enlightened and great State as Ogun…? We cannot take further risk. Nigeria as a country is yet to recover from that Amosun’s alleged misadventure,” the CDGN queried.
It would be recalled that Governor Amosun had accused chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Aremo Segun Osoba of having a hand in the APC governorship primaries that produced Dapo Abiodun as the Ogun state governorship candidate of the party over and above his preferred Candidate, Adekunle Akinlade. But the CDGN noted that it is ” a neutral, apolitical and development global Forum that is committed to the promotion of democracy and good governance in Nigeria.”
