The National Chairman of the
ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has given
reason for shift in the party’s convention and extension of his tenure.
Chief Odigie-Oyegun, while
speaking with journalists yesterday in his office, said the decision was taken
to avoid crisis ahead of the 2019 general elections.
He noted that the decision was
not new to the APC in view of similar actions on Ekiti and Osun states in 2014.
Oyegun, speaking on plans of
aggrieved members to drag him to court over his extension of tenure, said it
was not possible to have unanimity of opinion on the action of the party’s
National Executive Committee (NEC) to extend the tenure of the APC officials
across all levels by one year.
“I don’t want to talk on this
sensitive political issue, suffice it to say that whatever is happening
naturally will be contrary viewed.
“So, it will be so difficult if
you come out with total, 100 per cent unanimity. But I think the reason of not
wanting to hold some of these elective congresses this year is very clear.
“We have such a mighty work to do
this one year and each one has potential of causing crisis. It has always been
anyway that once there is an election, it always creates its own issues.
“We are going to have first set
of party elections, second set of elections of governmental aspirants, other
Houses of Assembly, House of Representatives, Senate, governorship and so on.”
“So, we just felt we could defer
some of these issues or the party felt some of these challenges could be
deferred for one year for serious tasks before us, which is the national
elections, and people gave the good examples of Ekiti and Osun where because of
this same problem, elections were due in those two states, the filling of party
offices had to be deferred,” he said.
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