Osoba Draws Battle Line with Amosun Over 2027 Ogun Central Senate

<h4>Osoba Draws Battle Line with Amosun<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the age-long political battle between Aremo Olusegun Osoba and Ibinkule Amosun has been renewed&period; This time&comma; it is in respect of the 2027 Ogun Central Senate seat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to records&comma; Aremo Osoba&comma; in his capacity as the leader of then Action Congress of Nigeria&comma; CAN&comma; endorsed Ibikunle Amosun for the 2011 governorship&comma; a development that led to a resounding success despite the robust incumbency factor of then governor Gbenga Daniel who supported Gboyega Isiaka of the Peoples Party of Nigeria&comma; PPN who hails from Ogun West senatorial district&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; that political romance was ill fated as it turned out that the two Egba born political heavy weights fell apart before the 2015 general elections&comma; in which case Aremo Osoba left for the Social Democratic Party&comma; SDP with his supporters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thereafter&comma; following Osoba’s return to the All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&comma; both Osoba and Amosun appeared to have settled&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But a political matter that seemed settled has been rudely fractured&comma; once again on account of the 2027 Senate ambition of Amosun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Evidence manifested when on Sunday&comma; January 25&comma; 2026&comma; over 10&comma;000 supporters of the accountant gathered at the Ake Palace Amphitheater in Abeokuta to celebrate his 68th birthday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Amosun used the opportunity to drum supports for the re election of Tinubu for a second term in office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In the interest of Nigeria&comma; we should respect the principle of rotation&period; The North has just completed eight years in office&period; It is now the turn of the South&comma; and we currently have President Tinubu&comma; who represents the South and&comma; by extension&comma; the entire country&comma;”<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>Amosun said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;32450" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-32450" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-32450" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;01&sol;Amosun-e1769505488595-300x184&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Osoba Draws Battle Line with AmosunOver 2027 Ogun Central Senate" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"184" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-32450" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Amosun and wife during the celebrations at Ake Palace ground<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Though the University of Westminster Master of Arts in International Finance holder did not openly announce his 2027 Senate <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">ambition<&sol;a>&comma; the tone of the ceremony including the mammoth crowd struck loyalists in Osoba’s camp who concluded that <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Something urgent must be done&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Arising from that&comma;  an APC Ogun Central Stakeholders meeting was convened at Osoba&&num;8217&semi;s residence on Monday with <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;full permission”<&sol;strong><&sol;em> from the APC leader&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The closed-door meeting brought together a broad spectrum of party leadership and elected officials to deliberate on crucial party affairs and matters concerning the district&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Notable attendees included&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&CenterDot; National Assembly Members&colon; Senator Shuaib Afolabi Salisu &lpar;representing Ogun Central&rpar;&comma; Hon&period; Afolabi Moruf Afuwape&comma; and Hon&period; Ibrahim Isiaka&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&CenterDot; Party Leadership&colon; The Ogun Central Senatorial District Chairman&comma; Chief Sunday Sowunmi&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&CenterDot; Local Government Chairmen&colon; All local government chairmen within the senatorial district&comma; led by the ALGON Chairman in <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">Ogun State<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&comma; Hon&period; &lpar;Dr&period;&rpar; Folasade Adeyemo&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&CenterDot; State Officials&colon; Several commissioners serving in the Ogun State government&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&CenterDot; Party Executives&colon; Invited members of the APC State Executive Committee&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though specific resolutions from the deliberations were not immediately made public&comma; a credible source told OpenLife that <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is to stop Ibikunle Amosun&period; You know Amosun can never be loyal to anybody&period; The leaders will always find it difficult to work with him&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>So&comma; measures are being put in place to stop him and they will stop him&period; I can assure you that&comma;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em> the source stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;