Oshiomhole’s Accuser, Shuaibu Vows To Boycott ‘Illegal’ Disciplinary Committee

The deputy national chairman (north) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Lawali Shuaibu has described the five-man disciplinary committee constituted to try him as illegal and as such that he would not appear before it.

Shuaibu who last week stirred a storm when he called for the resignation of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole while reiterating his claims against the national chairman dared the NWC to take the issue to the National Executive Committee, NEC, the body he said has the statutory responsibility of enforcing discipline against him.

Shuiabu in a letter to Otunba Niyi Adebayo, deputy national chairman, (south) advised him to trudge the path of legality saying that Oshiomhole who is accused cannot be a judge in his own case.

Adebayo was named as the chairman of the disciplinary committee.

“How can the Chairman preside over a meeting In which discussions that border on allegations against him are discussed? Let me repeat again as in my letter to the Chairman, You CAN’T BE A JUDGE IN YOUR OWN CASE! And to even say he was seated there to accept a vote of confidence as well as preside over setting up a committee to punish the member that accused him!”

“Otunba my honest advice to you is, since you are the closest NWC member to the Chairman, in order not to drive the Party into the muds, always insist on following the due process of law in whatever he wants to commit the Party to. All he needs to do is to work closely with the Legal Adviser and not to mock his advice because if we find any failure in that instance you can not blame the lawyer.”

Responding to the allegation that he incited National Assembly members-elect against the party, Shuaibu recoiled saying:

“your meeting ran out of creative ideas on how to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it. They are weighty allegations, but I don’t get intimidated and for those who know me, I have never in my life played any double standard and they can tell you that I don’t tell lies for any favours, because I depend on God for all my needs and every other favour. That is why I stood my grounds in advising the Chairman to allow the Party a breathing gap to heave a sigh and fly up once again without losing more feathers. 

“However, with the aforementioned points in mind, let me state that with due respect to the National Working Committee, an important organ of my Party, I will not appear before your committee as it is illegal and I am too informed to get involved in illegalities. If you want to punish me for saying what I still believe is true, then you have to take this matter to where you are avoiding, the National Executive Committee.”

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