*She will rule Ogun State till 2027
The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has declared that his successor would be a woman and she will rule the state till 2027.
The Governor spoke on the issue on Tuesday, while answering questions from newsmen on the sideline of a news conference he addressed on the forthcoming 2018 Africa Drum Festival in Abeokuta.
Responding to questions from newsmen on the sustainability of the Drum Festival after his tenure in May 2019, Amosun assured that his choice of replacement would be “a whiz kid, who will surpass him in all ramifications, confident that with performance of his administration, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) would win the 2019 elections.
“Let me say this. A woman is going to be next governor of Ogun State. She is a whiz kid that will key into what we have been doing in the last eight years.”
As he was quoted as having said at a recent fora, that “My candidate will not be politician, not even in APC,” the disclosure on Tuesday, may have further put to rest all permutations and calculations even in the ruling APC in the state.
Amosun said his preferred candidate will be a youth, who is vibrant and successful.
He refused to give details on the identity of his preferred candidate, but explained that, his candidate will continue with the projects and programmes of his administration after 2019.
The governor first gave an insight into his likely successor, at a close door meeting with members of the Ogun State APC members of National Assembly and principal officers of the state House of Assembly, last January in Abeokuta.
What is sure, according to Amosun, is that the candidate will come from the Yewa axis of the state.
APC aspirants eyeing the governorship ticket from Yewa axis, include Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi; the Governor’s Chief Of staff, Chief Tolu Odebiyi; a member of House of Representatives, Abdulkabir Akinlade and Honourable Isiaq Akinlade, a former House of Reps member.
