A presidential aspirant under the
All Progressives Congress, Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, has provided several reasons he
believes the national Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, lacks
the capacity to lead the APC.
In a statement he forwarded to
NigerianEye on Tuesday, Ogbonnia said he was responding to an earlier attack
directed towards him by Oshiomhole.
He also maintained that President
Muhammadu Buhari lacks what it takes to lead a twenty-first century Nigeria.
According to him, ” My attention
has been drawn to a press statement signed by Simon Ebegbulem, Chief Press
Secretary to the Chairman of our great party, the All Progressive Congress
(APC), Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, disparaging my person.
In the said statement titled ‘Why
unwarranted attacks against Oshiomhole will fail’, I was portrayed as one of
the ‘mischief makers in the opposition PDP who are marauding as APC members..’
It added that I sat idly by while crisis was rocking the party.
”People like SKC Ogbonnia and his
cohorts were on this earth when the crisis were brewing and they never said a
word to those saddled with the responsibilities of finding solution to the
problem.’
“Ordinarily, I would not dignify
such uncharitable remark with a response, especially when it is assumed to come
from a belligerent, gabby, shambolic cum egocentric character understandably
desperate for attention since leaving office as Edo governor. But I am
compelled to respond, at base, to lend credibility to my party that has taken a
toll since Adams Oshiomhole grabbed its leadership a little more than a month
ago.
“Frankly, it has become
obligatory to inform the chairman that he is becoming an embarrassment to the
party. This latest outburst against a presidential aspirant only goes to show
that Mr. Oshiomhole lacks the intellectual capacity to lead a ruling party.
“If not, before rushing to the
press, the Oshiomhole’s team ought to have done some research on my background,
including what I did or did not do before our victory in 2015 and throughout
the crisis that has exacerbated under the current leadership. In short, any
genuine effort could have apprised Comrade Oshiomhole that I have contributed
more to the growth of APC than himself. But it is easy for a then to become a
forgettable history.
“Now, my sin is that I am a
patriotic Nigerian and happen to belong to the patriotic wing of the APC, and
my politics is committed to professing the truth without minding whose ox is
gored. The truth in this whole saga is based on the following objective facts:
“President Muhammadu Buhari no
longer has what it takes to lead a 21st Century Nigeria and must not be the
nominee of our great party in the 2019 presidential election.
“SKC Ogbonnia is best choice for
the party at this point in history; the Nigerian masses—from all regions—are
yearning for a dynamic, visionary, charismatic, and detribalized leader with
the capacity to unleash the abundant potential of Nigeria to greatness.
“Nominating Buhari over SKC Ogbonnia
can bring PDP back to power and, by consequence, worse than the annulment of
the June 12 election.
“President Buhari is the real
problem in APC; his second term bid is ill-advised and central to the crisis
rocking the party.
“Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole was
elected chairman for all APC members, not an emperor for the inordinate
ambition of President Buhari for second term in office.
“Oshiomhole’s war with other APC
presidential aspirants, besides Buhari, negates a principal vision of the APC
to promote rule of law and internal party democracy.
“Oshiomhole’s leadership style
since assuming office, typified by a pattern of reckless utterances and
intimidation, is an embarrassing failure which, of course, hastened the mass
exodus of members to the opposition ranks.
“I must not conclude without
giving credit to where credit is due. I am at home with the line that suggests
that Oshiomhole has what it takes to crush PDP, for good, based on the claim
that the comrade “brought the PDP godfathers to their kneels” during his time
as governor of the great state of Edo. Interestingly, shaming the same PDP at
the 2019 poll is what I am set to do. But charity begins at home.
“I will begin by ushering in true
reforms to the APC where the same Oshiomhole appears to have graduated into a
grandiose godfather and now joining to form a wall against the younger
generation of leaders.”
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