APC S/South Chairmen Defend Oshiomhole, Blame Odigie-Oyegun For Party’s Problems

Chairmen of state chapters of the All Progressives Congress, APC from the South-South on Friday passed a vote of confidence on Adams Oshiomhole saying the present fault lines in the party were laid by his immediate predecessor, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.

The six chairmen from Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Rivers States in a joint statement asked the deputy national chairman Senator Lawali Shuaibu who recently raised allegations against Oshiomhole to tender an unreserved apology to the national chairman.

The State Chairmen rising from an emergency meeting in Abuja called to review the content of the said letter said Shuaibu merely expressed his personal opinion on perceived issues which is not a reflection of the views of the generality of party stakeholders who they claimed are yet to find anything untoward in the stewardship of the party’s National Chairman His Excellency, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

The State Chairmen further disagreed with Senator Lawal Shuaibu’s claims that the actions of the National Chairman were responsible for multiplicity of court cases bedeviling various State chapters of the party.

Rather, they asserted it was the landmines created by his predecessor who was bent on destroying the party before departing that fueled the unfortunate situation and wondered why Senator Lawal Shuaibu is just realizing the issues he raised barely few days after the NWC set up a committee to look into petitions against highly placed party stakeholders who were glaringly involved in anti-party activities which was responsible for the loss of the number of states mentioned in his letter vis a – viz the depletion also in the numbers of elected Senators in the just concluded 2019 elections.

The State Chairmen also debunked the allegations of high-handedness against the National Chairman with particular reference to the altering of National Working Committee decisions as a veil plot to crucify the National Chairman over his uncompromising stance on truth against elements bent on destroying the party from within.

They however, urged for restraint on the part of Senator Shuaibu asking him to employ more civilized ways of expressing whatever private grievance he has against the National Chairman instead of playing to the gallery by granting interviews to launch unprovoked attacks on the National Chairman and by extension, the very party he claims to love.

The State Chairmen wondered whose interest the media outburst seeks to serve and it’s original intendment stating unequivocally that, the National Chairman cannot be removed on the pages of newspapers because the constitution of the party which Senator Shuaibu subscribed to, as a member of the NWC, clearly guarantees the tenure of office of the party’s National Chairman and the processes of removing him from office.

The Deputy National Chairman North is hereby given seven days to apologise to the National Chairman in order not to receive the wrath of party members in the South-South.

The State Chairmen observed that what the Deputy National Chairman, North did is tantamount to creating disaffection amongst party faithful. This they said, is very offensive to the constitution of the party.

The Chairmen thereafter passed a vote of confidence on the National Chairman and vowed to resist any attempt to blackmail him out of office for standing against injustice that has hitherto been the hallmark of his predecessor which was the only legacy he left behind.

The statement was jointly signed by the six (6) South – South APC State Chairmen namely; Hon. Ini T. Okopido – State Chairman , Akwa – Ibom State, Hon. Amos Lalabunafa – State Chairman , Bayelsa State, Mr. John Ochalla – State Chairman, Cross Rivers State and Prophet Jones Ode Erue – State Chairman , Delta State.

The other signatories were Barr. Aslem U. Ojezua – State Chairman , Edo State and Hon. Ojukaye Flag Amachree – State Chairman, Rivers State.

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