Adams Oshiomhole, the All Progressives Congress (APC)
National Chairman has expressed confidence that crisis in the party will be
resolved.
He stated this on Friday in Abuja, while briefing newsmen on
the state of affairs of the party in Rivers, Ogun and Imo states following
issues arising from the party’s congresses and governorship primaries.
On Ogun, he said Gov. Ibikunke Amosun, through his
“consensus arrangement”, announced those he wanted to be in elective positions
in the state, including the Governorship, Senate, House of Representative and
State House of Assembly.
This, Oshiomhole said, did not go down well with the people
of the state whom he said instantly rejected the governor’s unilateral
imposition of candidates on them.
He said that the party’s leadership consequently organised
fresh primaries in total compliance with its regulations which produced Mr Dapo
Abiodun as the party’s Ogun governorship candidate for 2019.
He also said that whatever court order the Ogun state
governor was presently parading, would not change the situation as there was an
existing superior court order on the matter.
“Gov. Amosun had been coming to Abuja to pressure me to
reserve what has been properly done and to accept what is clearly unlawful and
undemocratic,” he said.
He added that the governor’s action amounted to abuse of
power, saying that the party’s Constitute does not recognise emperors.
“There are no emperors in APC; if anybody tries to make
himself as one, it will be an exercise in futility,” he said.
On Imo, Oshiomhole maintained that Sen. Hope Uzodinma who
emerged from the primaries conducted by the Gulak committee remains the 2019
APC governorship candidate for the state.
The APC national chairman, however, debunked insinuations by
Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo that he disobeyed court order on the state
primaries earlier conducted where his son in-law Uche Nwosu was said to have
emerged as the party’s 2019 governorship candidate.
“What I have not been able to do for Gov. Okorocha is to
assist him with the instrument of APC, even as that will border on abuse of
power on my side.
“And I do not have such powers to help him to create Rochas
Okorocha political dynasty in Imo state in which he will be the APC Senatorial
candidate and his son in-law, Uche Nwosu, the governorship candidate.
“I am convinced that this is where many of my friend
governors tend not to understand me.
“If there is conflict between the known interest of the
great people of Imo who have reposed confidence in us by voting us to power as
they did in 2015, I will resist.
“I will resist every unlawful pressure to undermine the
wishes of the good people of Imo and at this stage, the wishes of APC members
in Imo who do not want a political dynasty, by the way they have voted,”
Oshiomhole stressed.
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