APC CRISIS: OYEGUN LAUNCHES COUNTER MOVES, CALLS TINUBU’S BLUFF
APC
CRISIS: OYEGUN LAUNCHES COUNTER MOVES, CALLS TINUBU’S BLUFF
Embattled National chairman of the ruling All Progressives
Congress, APC, John Odigie Oyegun has launched counter moves to tackle his
possible removal as chairman of the party.
Oyegun has reportedly gone underground and is scheming to retain
his position as chairman in the forthcoming party convention scheduled for June
2018.
It will be recalled that Oyegun and the national leader of the
party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu have been at loggerheads over the tenure extension of
the NWC committee of the party. It is believed that the anti-Oyegun forces
within the party are being led by Tinubu.
Sources reveal to PoliticsNGR that Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi
state and Governor Rotimi Akeredolu are at the forefront.
Speaking with newsmen after Tuesday’s meeting with President
Buhari, Rochas Okorocha, Chairman of APC Governors’ Forum and governor of Imo
State, confirmed Oyegun’s plan to seek re-election when he clarified some
points.
He said: “But let me correct one
impression, the issue of congress and convention does not
mean that the previous people who have served the party have done badly, and it
does not mean that they cannot come back, or that they cannot re-contest. That
is not it.
We are simply saying that their tenure has
ended and those who wish to re-contest can re-contest and can be elected to our
party structure.
“So, we are all one as a family and we are set
to go for the 2019 elections in victory.”
However, Oyegun has denied claims that Tinubu played a role in his
emergence as chairman saying that no single individual assisted him to occupy
the prized position. He told journalists in Benin;
“I don’t believe one particular person solely
assisted me to this position, everybody assisted me and, someday, the story of
how I became chairman of APC will be told. You will then see that everybody did
assist me to become national chairman.
This means that I am there for everybody. I
don’t belong to any camp in the APC. I belong to all members of APC, high and
below” Oyegun had said.