Immediate past national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has again delivered verbal blow on his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, who he accused of heightening tension in Edo State.
Apparently piqued by the position of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) on the crisis rocking Edo State House of Assembly, Oyegun argued that Oshiomhole’s activities against Governor Godwin Obaseki amounted to anti-party, warning him not to distract the governor.
Chief Oyegun, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Political Affairs, Chief Ray Murphy, lamented that he is yet to come to terms with the fact that Governor Obaseki is receiving the highest distractions not from the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but from his predecessor, who is also the chairman of his party.
“This party must be stronger because we cannot go into the 2023 general elections with this discordant tunes, especially as President Buhari will not be contesting. We need to get our acts together. Oyegun has no personal grievances with Oshiomhole but Nigerians must know that he cannot go to equity with unclean hands.
“Today, there are all kinds of rancour coming from Edo State. They all boil down to attempt by godfather and godfatherism that is heating up the polity in the state. Obaseki is the governor of Edo State and should be allowed to exercise the powers vested on him by the law. To what purpose is this idea of the APC chairman putting the state under tension?
“As a governor under APC platform, he should be allowed to run out his tenure before they decide whether to bring him back or not. There are so much antics going on and you don’t need to be a prophet or babalawo to trace where they are coming from. They are coming from the APC.
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