The governors elected on the platform of the
All Progressives Governors Forum have asked the National Chairman, Adams
Oshiomhole, to convene a National Executive Council meeting or resign.
The governors said the inability
of the chairman to call for superior organs of the party to a meeting was
causing increasing organisational challenges in the party.
The governors made the call
through the Director-General of the Progressives Governors Forum, Salihu
Lukman, in a statement made available on Wednesday in Abuja.
The PGF is an umbrella body of
governors of the APC.
The statement said, “In the
current circumstance, nothing short of a NEC or National Caucus meeting of the
party can resolve all our increasing organisational challenges as a party.
“It is either Oshiomhole respect
the provision of the party constitution and convene superior organ meeting to
deliberate on all our challenges, or he should just accept his inability to
manage the party and simply resign.”
The statement challenged the
national leaders to rise to the challenge facing the party and take all
necessary measures to convene superior organ meetings to begin to resolve all
challenges as a party, saying “the current public disgrace must end!”
Lukman said the call was
heightened by the information coming from Edo State indicating that members of
the State Executive Council of APC had passed a vote of no confidence on
Oshiomhole.
“In so many respects, it could be
argued, it is a natural outcome of unfolding power play between Oshiomhole and
Governor Godwin Obaseki since June 2019 with the contentious inauguration of
the Edo State House of Assembly. Possible retaliatory responses from both
Comrade Oshiomhole and groups such as Edo Peoples Movement who are loyal to
Oshiomhole should be expected. In other words, the could be counter
pronouncement suspending Governor Obaseki.
“Side by side with the news of
the vote of no confidence was also the discomforting report of the Federal High
Court judgement in Abuja disqualifying Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo as our Deputy
Governorship candidate for the November 16, 2019, Bayelsa election. While
expecting that every necessary step will be taken to vacate the judgement, it
is very depressing for every committed party member to be subjected to such
ignominious reality, which only reminds us of our reckless conducts in states
like Zamfara, Rivers, Bauchi and Adamawa, which chiefly gave away electoral
victories to the PDP.
“Instead of focusing on working
to win elections, we are busy undermining ourselves. All these are ominous
signs that we are about to re-enact the Zamfara, Rivers, Bauchi and Adamawa
experiences in Bayelsa. It is Bayelsa today, Anambra, Edo, and Ondo are being
setup for similar experiences. Somehow, unfortunately, the NEC of the party,
which is the organ vested with the statutory responsibility of responding to
all these challenges appears to be suspended.
“The last time it met was August
2018. In its place, the National Working Committee, which is an administrative
organ with the responsibility of implementing decisions of NEC and other higher
organs seems to have usurped the powers of NEC.”
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