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NEC meeting: Accept your inability to manage party, resign, APC govs to Oshiomhole

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Following the various crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) has asked the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to immediately convene a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting to resolve some of the crisis, or just accept his inability to manage the party and resign immediately.

In a statement made available to newsmen and signed by the PGF’s Director General, Salihu Moh. Lukman, on Wednesday in Abuja, the forum questioned why it is impossible to convene a NEC or National Caucus meetings, which are supposed to hold every quarter to resolve all these issues.

The statement read: “Why should the NWC under Comrade Oshiomhole continue to imagine that it can conduct affairs of the party without mandatory meetings of party organs?

“What legacy is Comrade Oshiomhole hoping to achieve as a National Chairman, by running the party in a way that suggests almost zero commitment to issues of party development?

“In the current circumstance, nothing short of a NEC or National Caucus meeting of the party can resolve all our increasing organisational challenges as a party. It is either Comrade Oshiomhole respect the provision of party constitution and convene superior organ meeting to deliberate on all our challenges, or he should just accept his inability to manage the party and simply resign.

“Our national leaders must rise to the challenge facing us as a party, and take all necessary measures to convene superior organ meetings to begin to resolve all our challenges as a party. The current public disgrace must end!”

According to the governors, it is very painful for many of them who have had the privilege of being mentored by Comrade Oshiomhole, to see him being devalued to a local factional leader from a very high pedestal of an illustrious national leader.

“As National Chairman, Comrade Oshiomhole hardly appreciate that he now has a national constituency and not just a state constituency, which may have been responsible for his apparent intemperance in the handling of matters affecting Edo State. I wish he paid similar attention to handling of issues affecting Rivers and Zamfara states during the 2019 elections.

“Information coming from Edo State indicate that members of the State Executive Council of APC have passed vote of no confidence on Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of our party, APC. In so many respects, it could be argued, it is a natural outcome of unfolding power play between Comrade Oshiomhole and Governor Godwin Obaseki, since June 2019, with the contentious inauguration of the Edo State House of Assembly.

“Possible retaliatory response from both Comrade Oshiomhole and groups such as Edo Peoples Movement who are loyal to Comrade Oshiomhole should be expected. In other words, there could be counter pronouncement suspending Governor Obaseki,” the statement added.

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