Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has threatened to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) if the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party fails to uphold the candidacy of his anointed governorship candidate, Abdul-Kabir Adekunle Akinlade.

Amosun took the stand on Wednesday night shortly after Governors Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Umar Ganduje (Kano), Mohammed Abubakar (Bauchi) and Kashim Shettima (Borno) met with President Muhammadu Buhari to seek his intervention in the contentious primaries in their various states.

Briefing APC party members and his loyalists across the 20 local government areas of the state at his private residence located inside Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, Amosun alleged that the leadership of the party allotted tickets to individuals who did not participate in the primaries.

The governor was said to have informed the gathering  that those he described as the ‘Abuja connection APC’ turned the standing rules of the primary election on their head and produced Abiodun as the party’s candidate instead of Akinlade, who emerged through a direct primary.

Although Amosun was silent on the choice of the party he might switch allegiance to, he however made it clear that he would not defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).