Resign now, Edo APC chairman tells Oshiomhole

THE end seems not to be in sight to the lingering crisis in the Edo State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the factional chairman, Mr Anslem Ojezua has vowed not to ever have anything to do with the national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

Ojezua who spoke yesterday in Benin at a crowded news conference at the party secretariat on Airport Road said that it was clear that there had all along been a grand plan by Oshiomhole to falsely create the impression of a crisis of leadership within the party in the state.

The ultimate objective of these activities appears to be a forcible regime change in our partying defiance of democratic norms and the wishes of the people. These plans were hatched and executed under the directive of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and executed through his acclaimed “infantry division.”‘

Having been suspended at the ward, local government and state levels, reiterated that Oshiomhole lacked the legitimacy to act in any capacity in the party.

Ojezua insisted that there was no faction in the state, charging that Oshiomhole as a polarizing figure in the party remains suspended and should resign.

He said: “We have come to the conclusion that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole lacks the capacity, temperament and moral authority to lead this party as national chairman.

In any case, he has been placed on suspension as a member of the party, he has lost the legitimacy to act in any capacity in the party.

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“We, therefore, urge Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to do the honourable thing and resign or be precluded from functioning in the office while his suspension subsits.”

Going down memory lane, the factional chairman said that the genesis of the crisis has to do with the overbearing attitude of the national chairman who in clear violation of the order by the national working committee for indirect primary decreed direct primary in Edo.

He alleged that Oshiomhole cancelled the primary when they were eventually conducted and had been in league with the 12 lawmakers elect who disassociated themselves from the last June 17 proclamation by Governor Godwin Obaseki.