Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief
John Odigie-Oyegun, has urged his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, to desist
from interfering in the affairs of Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo.
Odigie-Oyegun gave the advice in a statement signed by his Public
Affairs Adviser, Chief Ray Morphy, on Sunday in Abuja.
“I appeal to him (Oshiomhole) to stop disgracing the governing party APC
and Edo state.
“He should give the governor a breeding space to concentrate on doing
the job of serving the people of Edo.
“I wonder how he could easily forget that I never interfered or bothered
about how he ran the government as the then governor of Edo all the
while I occupied the position of the party’s National chairman.
“I am yet to come to terms with why it has become difficult for
Oshiomhole to realise that Gov. Obaseki is the only APC governor in the
entire South-south.
“And he should be allowed to concentrate in giving the people of Edo the
dividends of democracy,’’ Odigie-Oyegun said.
He urged the Progressive Governors Forum not to stand aside and watch
its fellow governor being hampered by a party chairman whose actions
might lead to political misfortune of the party.
“I want to also appeal to the Progressives Governors not to stand aside
and watch their fellow governor hampered by a party chairman whose
actions may lead to political misfortune of the party in the state.
“The recent outburst by Gov Obaseki and the report by the House of
Representatives ad-hoc committee, indicting the current National
Chairman of the APC, have confirmed my earlier claim that Oshiomhole is
responsible for the crisis in Edo.
“In the face of these confirmations, I want to urge Oshiomhole to stop
disgracing the ruling party and the good people of Edo,’’ Odigie-Oyegun
said.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalls that a similar scenario had played
out in the last PDP era between its erstwhile National Chairman, Dr.
Okwesilieze Nwodo, and his then Enugu Governor Sullivan Chime.
That incident led to the removal of Nwodo by the then ruling PDP.