Twelve chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) say
Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman, has “murdered” democracy in the party.
In a statement on Thursday, the founding members of the APC,
said Oshiomhole’s recent actions as regards the forthcoming election in Edo
state contravene the party’s constitution.
They said Oshiomhole did not have the power to give Osagie
Ize-Iyamu, an Edo governorship aspirant, waiver to run for the party’s ticket
or to write to the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that party
had adopted direct primary mode before a decision was taken by the national
working committee (NWC).
The chieftains said it was time for Bola Tinubu, a national
leader of the party, to weigh in because the APC has suffered “incalculable
losses since 2015” owing largely to the mismanagement of the affairs of the
party.
“It is against this background that we believe that Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu has a historic duty to come out and assure party members and indeed
the Nigerian citizens that he still stands on the pillars of equity, fairness
and justice,” they said.
“Let us not be misunderstood. We are not in any way,
suggesting that Asiwaju jumps into the fray in the many of the festering and
lingering internal disagreements within the APC, requiring reconciliation.
“However, we expect that by now he should be able to provide
incontestably fair leadership to all party members, through which some specific
actions of the APC national chairman Comrade Adams Oshiomhole can be moderated
and made to conform with internal due processes as provided in the provisions
of the APC constitution.
“Comrade Oshiomhole has murdered democracy in the APC. As
democrats, we believe that such actions are reprehensible and condemnable. No
leadership will condone such illegal actions that can only undermine the
democratic ethos upon which APC stands.”
They said the APC is inadvertently giving the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) oxygen with the way the party operates currently.
“We are inadvertently giving oxygen to the PDP, a failed
political formation that we thought we had castrated in 2015,” politicians
said.
“However, can there be a reconciliation in an atmosphere of
impunity perpetrated by the national chairman of APC, which could not have been
possible without the tacit green light from the National leader himself?
“We find it bewildering that just within a space of one
month, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole had serially and violently violated the APC
constitution that the silence of Asiwaju, the national leader is
disconcerting.”
The APC members who signed the statement are Salihu
Mustapha, Polycap Udah, Mohammed Bala Jibrin, Ray Morphy, Umar Kachalla Zubair,
Sylvanus Amechi, Shaba Emangi, Emeka Enechi, Charles Idahosa, Mohammed Aboki
Mahmud, Mackor Shaka Momodu and Yesufu Omonemi.
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