• Home
• Columnist
• Videos
• Artist
  • Musicians
  • Actors
  • Comedians
• Notable Nigerians
• Legend Dies
• Articles
  • Nigeria Articles
• Photos
• Submit Article

Otunba Gbenga Daniel may be out of office as governor of Ogun State but it does not seem that he’s out of trouble. He is having sleepless nights over questions being raised concerning the way he ran the affairs of the state for eight years. And the person asking those questions is Ibikunle Amosun, his successor as governor.

The new government in the state set up a committee to look into some allegedly questionable aspects of the affairs of government during the period Daniel was in the saddle. Some of the former governor’s supporters think that the step was not in good faith, that it was a continuation of the political battle in Ogun State which ended in favour of Amosun and the Action Congress of Nigeria, his political platform. But that did not stop the panel from doing its job.

The exercise has ended in the indictment of Daniel, the former governor, for alleged illegal land deals and other transactions that it said were far from being transparent.

Some of the issues raised are already in court and so the parties were unwilling to speak on all aspects of the matters in contention. But we obtained exclusively a government gazette which contains details of the probe panel’s findings and recommendations. This week’s cover story has the full details.

But beside that, we sought and got the reaction of   the ex-governor. Daniel had declined to address the issues himself when we approached him but delegated his former commissioner for information, Sina Kawonise, to talk to us and he did. What we have published this week is, therefore, a balanced report on the Battle of Ogun Political Titans which is what we have titled the story. It was anchored by Demola Abimboye, principal associate editor.