Salihu Lukman, director-general
of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), says some people are plotting to
return Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of the party.
Oshiomhole was suspended as
national chairman of the APC in June after the court of appeal affirmed his
suspension.
This sparked a protracted
leadership tussle until the national working committee (NWC) led by Oshiomhole
was dissolved by the party’s national executive committee (NEC).
In a letter addressed to Mai Mala
Buni, APC caretaker chairman, Lukman said it is “very disturbing” that some
people want to “bully” the party’s leadership to make Edo governorship the only
priority of the APC.
“Just like before the June 25,
2020 emergency NEC, issues of Edo State are dominating public discussions and
considerations of issues concerning the party,” the director-general said.
“This is being foisted on the
party as a strategy to weaken the initiative of the caretaker committee from
taking steps that could facilitate the resolution of the leadership crisis
through ensuring that the forthcoming extraordinary national convention to
elect a new national chairman and other members of the National Working
Committee for the party different from Adams Oshiomhole is blocked.
“In other words, everything is
being done to ensure that the internal politics of the party is manipulated to
create situations whereby Oshiomhole is forcefully made a contender for the
position of the national chairman at the extraordinary APC national
convention.”
Lukman said there is a need for a
special session of the national caucus of the party in preparation for the
governorship polls in Edo and Ondo states.
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