APC Crises Worsen; Amosun describes Tinubu as ‘Capo Di Tutti,’ accuses Oshiomhole of ‘evil plan’

Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State [Photo: The Guardian Nigeria]

The multiple crises rocking Nigeria’s ruling party showed no signs of abating on Saturday as a governor attacked both the party chairman and another major leader of the party.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State accused Adams Oshiomhole of being a garrulous leader who was pandering to the whims of Bola Tinubu, who he described as the “Capo Di Tutti” of Lagos.

The “Capo Di Tutti” is a term of Italian origin often used to describe the overall boss within a mafia family or group.

Although Mr Amosun did not directly name Mr Tinubu, the statement by his information commissioner made apparent reference to Mr Tinubu who has firm control of the APC in Lagos State.

The governor accused the party chairman of conniving with Mr Tinubu to wrest control of the party structure in the South-west.

He had made a similar accusation about two weeks earlier, accusing Mr Oshiomhole of conniving with a “cabal in Lagos” to take over the APC in Ogun.

In the Saturday statement, Mr Amosun was reacting to Mr Oshiomhole’s statement on Friday where the latter described the Ogun governor and his Imo State counterpart, Rochas Okorocha, as behaving like emperors.

PREMIUM TIMES published Mr Oshiomhole’s criticism of the governors on Friday at a press conference in Abuja.

Mr Oshiomhole explained that the Ogun governor’s loyalists conducted a primary not recognised by the APC national headquarters.

“However, Ogun State governor decided in his wisdom to conduct his own self help, I mean resulting to what you can call self-help by conducting what he called his own primary. The Secretary to Ogun State Government became the Chief Returning Officer and I and other NWC members were watching the Channels Television and we saw the Secretary to Ogun State Government proclaiming himself as the returning officer, and purported to have conducted primary,” Mr Oshiomhole said.

In his response, on Saturday, Mr Amosun, in a statement by his information commissioner, Dayo Adeneye, accused the party chairman of double standard.

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