The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has highlighted reasons why plots to remove the party’s chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, are not justified.
Tinubu’s statement released on Sunday is coming at a time when the leadership crisis rocking the party is deepened.
POLITICS NIGERIA had reported the travails of Oshimhole who was suspended as the party’s head by an Abuja high court.
Also, the national secretary of the party, Victor Giadom, has called for a meeting of the National Executive Committee on Tuesday, March 17.
Ahead of the meeting, some South South leaders and ministers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet have endorsed Giadom as the Acting Chairman of the party.
This, amidst many moves, have been perceived to be ploys to facilitate the eventual removal of Mr Oshiomhole.
Meanwhile, Tinubu stated three reasons why the present plots to undermine the APC National Chairman are condemnable.
He noted that Mr Oshiomhole is human; thus, he has his merits as well as his flaws. “Yet his humanity cannot be grounds for his dismissal. If so, the position will forever go vacant.”
According to Tinubu, Oshiomhole has been a tireless campaigner and mobilizer for the party. “He has steered the party through difficult elections. His contributions should not be undervalued now that the bulk of elections are behind us. To do so would be an act of ingratitude. It is no secret that the Chairman and Edo Governor Obaseki are in dispute. This is unfortunate,” He wrote.
He however added that the party has moved through proper procedures within the proper organs of the party to hopefully resolve this spat.
“All party members know this. Such decisions are part and parcel of internal party governance. Yet, motivated by ambitions that have nothing to do with the quality of the Chairman’s performance, people shunned the agreed party reconciliation mechanism and resorted to other means to oust him.”
“These self-help attempts are unwarranted. These attempts reveal more about the mala fides of their perpetrators than they do about the Chairman,” Tinubu’s statement read in part.
