It doesn’t look like the efforts of former Ogun State governor, Aremo Segun Osoba, to reconcile his warring successors, Gbenga Daniel and Dapo Abiodun, has paid off as both parties seem hell bent on continuing with their feud.
Osoba had thought to mediate peace between Abiodun and Daniel after Abiodun refused to celebrate Daniel when he marked his birthday on April 6th, 2023. Abiodun and his aides did not give the former governor the usual recognition given to party chieftains, political leaders, associates, and appointees on their special day. Besides, Daniel openly fraternised with Ladi Adebutu, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state and nearly cost Abiodun his second term or so the latter claimed.
Osoba appealed to both parties to sheathe their sword and work together toward the prosperity of the state. At first it seemed like his efforts were yielding positive results as the two parties stopped fighting. But recent happenings suggest otherwise.
Last weekend, Daniel threw a lavish party to celebrate his emergence as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The venue was the Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja. The event witnessed a large turnout of politicians, but Abiodun was conspicuously absent. Other political heavy weights who didn’t attend the party were Senators Solomon Adeola, Shaibu Afolabi, both hardcore loyalists of Abiodun and a few other senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun state.
Ironically, in 2019 during Abiodun’s first tenure as the governor of Ogun State, Daniel was one of those who dumped the PDP, even as the Director General of Atiku Abubakar’s Presidential Campaign Council, to support Abiodun. But things later turned awry when Abiodun refused to support Daniel’s senatorial ambition.
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