Adams Oshiomhole, national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described Rochas Okorocha,
governor of Imo state, as an embarrassment to the ruling party.
The national chairman said this
at a press conference in Abuja.
His comment comes after the
governor accused him of working against the interest of the party and making
the APC lose five million voters.
“I also request that Oshiomhole
must learn to respect the rule of law and obey court orders where they apply.
This issue of treating court orders as tissue papers must stop; it doesn’t
reflect the image of our party,” Okorocha had told journalists after meeting
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.
“Since his inception and after
the primaries, we have lost almost five million voters. There is anger, protest
everywhere. He needs to be called to order; he has to respect the rule of law,
respect court orders and do the right thing.”
But Oshiomhole denied the
allegations by the governor, maintaining that he is on the right path.
“Okorocha’s action is against the
Christian community in Imo state and also an embarrassment to APC… we are not
ready to join him in antagonising his people,” Oshiomhole said.
“Yesterday, I watched Okorocha on
television urging me to obey the rule of law but we followed due process to
rescue him because the congresses conducted by my predecessor swept Okorocha
out of the system. We thought it wise to restore due process and ordered fresh
congress in the state.
“If Governor Rochas chose to
relocate to the villa and use the ground of villa to try to intimidate me to
create a dynasty, I will uphold the best interest of APC members and indeed of
APC people in Imo state.”
Oshiomhole also took the
opportunity of the conference to descend on Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun
state, accusing him of injustice and fraud in relation to the APC primaries
held in Ogun.
He said the governor had called
him to say that the Ogun APC was going to adopt consensus option, but he
rejected it, insisting on direct primary.
“Governor Amosun decided that him
and his prefered aspirant will not participate in the primaries organised by
the working committee and even tried to withdraw the security that was
necessary for the primary panel,” he said.
“At a stakeholders’ meeting,
Governor Amosun decided to introduce the third element which didn’t feature in
the resolution of the NEC, announced that Ogun State was going to adopt
consensus and he proceeded to define what in his view constitute consensus.
“He announced somebody as the
consensus governor, he proceeded to announce another man as the deputy
governor, he went on to proclaim (himself) as the next senator and he said the
current serving senator, Tejuoso, should step aside.
“He also went on to announce that
the second senator also from Ogun State will step aside while another man will
come in. Governor Amosun went on to announce another man who will be the next
speaker, and another one as the next deputy speaker. He also singlehandedly
pronounced that of the eight House of Representatives members, seven will not
return. According to him, only one will return. All these he claimed is a
consensus.
“However, Ogun state governor
decided in his wisdom to conduct his own self help, I mean resulting to what
you can call self help by conducting what he called his own primary. The
Secretary to Ogun state government became the chief returning officer and I and
other NWC members were watching the Channels Television and we saw the
secretary to Ogun state government proclaiming himself as the returning
officer, and purported to have conducted primary.”
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