Oshiomhole Is Killing APC And Chasing People Out With His “Agbero Style” – Former APC Chairman

Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) John Odigie-Oyegun has attacked his successor Adams Oshiomhole over the recent crisis confronting the party.

Odigie-Oyegun, in a statement issued on Sunday by his Public Affairs Adviser, Chief Ray Morphy, said Oshiomhole lacks the capacity to manage a political party.

He described the challenges South-South APC chairmen is currently facing in office as “ludicrous and infantile and an attempt to dream up justification for the failings of the party under Oshiomhole chairmanship”.

“Oshiomhole fails because he lacks the temperament that is required to run a political party. He lacks the capacity to manage the different interests and tendencies that constitute a political party,” Oyegun said.

Oyegun also pointed out the places where Oshiomhole made errors that put the ruling party in its current poor state. He said:

“He (Oshiomhole) engages his mouth before engaging his mind, so he offends party members; so, how does that constitute booby traps by Oyegun, the erstwhile chairman?

“Already, the Deputy National Chairman, North, has confirmed that Oshiomhole runs the party without recourse to the NWC. He acts in direct opposite of decisions taken by NWC. No minutes of NWC meetings which in any event take place outside the party Secretariat.”

He also faulted Oshiomhole on the party’s last primaries across states.

“How would you not have crisis in states with the confusion that Oshiomhole created when he gave the states freedom to choose their methods of choosing candidates for elections.

“Much of the crisis in states arose out of sheer incapacity on the part of the current chairman, how does Oshiomhole’s incapacity become booby traps by Oyegun?

“Many party men were aghast at the unfairness and injustice meted them during the primaries process.

“Oshiomole and his chairmen should leave his predecessor out and face his duties of running the party which seems to be overwhelming him. He should face the dwindling fortunes of the party which he himself created.

“Only a bad carpenter quarrels with his tools. Indeed, Oshiomhole is degrading and demarketing the party. Rather than seek to bring more people on board, he is rather chasing people out of the party with his agbero style of engagement.”