*_...Warns his stay ‘ll cost party Edo, Ondo, Anambra guber seats_*

*_Romanus Ugwu, Abuja_*

The Director General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors Forum, Salihu Mohammed Lukman, has told the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) and other stakeholders to appoint, on acting capacity, the replacement for the party’s national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

He also warned that retaining Oshiomhole as the ruling party’s boss will cost the party governorship tickets in the forthcoming Edo, Ondo and Anambra states elections.

Responding to the litigation involving the former Edo state governor, the PGF DG in a write-up titled ‘Injunction against Adams Oshiomhole: The big opportunity for party building’, he suggested that replacement of Oshiomhole will be the best panacea to the legal impasse currently holding the party to ransom.

Although he specifically commended the non-interference of President Muhammadu Buhari in the situation, he however asked him to be an integral part of the efforts to find viable replacement for Oshiomhole.



“How can we get all these started? First, pending the settlement of all the cases around Oshiomhole’s membership, we need to invoke provisions of Article 17 (vi) which provide that in the event of a vacancy, ‘the relevant party organ shall appoint another person to act in his place pending ratification by the National Convention or Congress.’

“The relevant party organ in this case may have to be the NEC. Given all the vacancies about six so far, National Chairman, Deputy National Chairman (South), Deputy National Chairman (North), National Vice Chairman (North West), National Secretary and National Auditor, who convenes the NEC?

“This is where the organising, consultation and negotiating capacity of our leaders will be tested. Combinations of majority of the remaining members of the NWC in consultation with President Buhari, Governors, other party leaders who are leading members of the National Caucus can resolve all these issues and convene the NEC to appoint an Acting National Chairman,” he suggested.

Warning of the dire consequences of the Oshiomhole-led NWC conducting Edo, Ondo and Anambra governorship primaries, he said: “It is important to ask the question, assuming in all of these, Oshiomhole remained as the National Chairman and proceed to organise primary elections for Edo, Ondo and Anambra, how advantageous will that be to APC?

“Let us also assume for the purpose of analysis that undisputed candidates emerge from the primaries in which no one within the party is contesting the results.

“Whether those undisputed candidates include Governors Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN of Ondo State is immaterial. The Zamfara and Bayelsa judicial cloud would appear to have already gathered with any opposition party led by PDP just positioned to harvest what will come with such clouds.

“Given such reality, it will be foolhardy for any upright thinking politician to aspire to contest on the platform of the party with Oshiomhole as the National Chairman. The only possible remedy will be if Comrade Oshiomhole is able to humble himself and go back to the root cause of the problem and resolve it.

“What is the root cause of the problem? It is the suspension by his Ward 10 in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. Since November 2, 2019, the Ward 10 Executives passed a vote of no confidence on Comrade Oshiomhole and suspended him from the party. Somehow, Comrade Oshiomhole and his supporters treated this action of the Ward Executives with contempt to the point of projecting Comrade Oshiomhole as superior to the Ward.

“This now has turned out to be the very albatross that is setting the stage for Comrade Oshiomhole’s downfall as the National Chairman. Other than issuing another suspension order on Obaseki and Aselm Ojezua, Edo State APC Chairman, Comrade Oshiomhole hardly initiated actions to challenge his suspension from his Ward, at least not to public knowledge.

I think they already did... It's like a chess u have to calculate every move before you take it

Political light weights who can't win their units are now experts in giving political advice. Who is Lukman?
A member of NWC, chairman of NEC and the national chairman of a party can b suspended by ward. Everybody should just contest for ward chairman. Afterall a state chairman can b removed by a ward chairman just by pronouncements.
The earlier Buhari rein in these renegade governors and their puppets the better for him.otherwise they will just derail his government by fighting from now till 2023

So long you have adequate grounds and constituitional backing to remove him then go ahead Mr Governor, If not Alimodu Sherif vs PDP would be a childs play

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solmusdesigns:
So long you have adequate grounds and constituitional backing to remove him then go ahead Mr Governor, If not Alimodu Sherif vs PDP would be a childs play

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Fayemi is joining forces with Obaseki for his own presidential ambition.
He thinks he can use the court to remove Osho after failing woefully to get a vote of no confidence passed on him at the APC NEC meeting.

Most of the important people in the APC are solidly behind Osho. When the appeal Court overturn that useless injunction, it would then be time to crush all the double agents in the APC!!!

Sirjamo:
Fayemi is joining forces with Obaseki for his own presidential ambition.
He thinks he can use the court to remove Osho after failing woefully to get a vote of no confidence passed on him at the APC NEC meeting.

Most of the important people in the APC are solidly behind Osho. When the appeal Court overturn that useless injunction, it would then be time to crush all the double agents in the APC!!!

Sit down for your house they type shit

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Judeerons32:
Political light weights who can't win their units are now experts in giving political advice. Who is Lukman?
A member of NWC, chairman of NEC and the national chairman of a party can b suspended by ward. Everybody should just contest for ward chairman. Afterall a state chairman can b removed by a ward chairman just by pronouncements.
The earlier Buhari rein in these renegade governors and their puppets the better for him.otherwise they will just derail his government by fighting from now till 2023

Does Buhari's government have any direction at all?
Please show us what is there for anyone to "derail".

Sirjamo:
Fayemi is joining forces with Obaseki for his own presidential ambition.
He thinks he can use the court to remove Osho after failing woefully to get a vote of no confidence passed on him at the APC NEC meeting.

Most of the important people in the APC are solidly behind Osho. When the appeal Court overturn that useless injunction, it would then be time to crush all the double agents in the APC!!!

...and who are those "important people".
Does the IG and DSS barring of Osho access to the secretariat convey any message to you at all?

Lol

Mintek:


Does Buhari's government have any direction at all?
Please show us what is there for anyone to "derail".

They barred everyone including the vice chairman who went to court. The secretariat is out of bounds to everyone not just Oshimhole loyalists

Mintek:


...and who are those "important people".
Does the IG and DSS barring of Osho access to the secretariat convey any message to you at all?