A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Charles Idahosa, yesterday, called on the national chairman of the party and immediate past governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole to quietly tender his resignation letter as the national chairman for the interest and survival of the party.
Idahosa also said the party is lossing its grip due to the alleged overbearing attitude of the national chairman of the party.
He made the call while reacting to all the issues surroundering the crises rocking the party in the state and to correct those claiming to have formed the party in the state that they were not.
"I happened to have been among the five Nigerians that have formed the Action Congress for Democrat (ACD) that is today APC. In 2006, after we formed the ACD in 2004, gentlemen of the press you can look at all these, Igbinedion disown ACD in fact, I was the one that was being disowned because in 2006 they saw me at a meeting, of the ACD now APC. Lai Muhammed, and there was this insinuation that Igbinedion as then governor and Tunubu were the ones sponsoring the ACD that is now APC.
"While Tunubu kept quite, he did not bother to deny Lai Muhammed, the Edo State government at that time quickly disowned me but it is very interesting today that everybody is now claiming APC.
"That is one of the reasons I cannot keep quite. I am a founding father I see people just coming into the party to destroy it.
"Adams Oshiomhole as at that time was still carrying placards on the streets of Lagos and Abuja, protesting as a labour leader. That was when we formed this party. We knew the roles he played that time.
"From the way we have seen issues, under Oshiomhole, APC is dying gradually and there is noway somebody like me can see issues and pretend not to see it", Idahosa said.
He said the national chairman of the party has no political home base and that he has been suspended by his ward, Local Government Area and by the state chapter of the party and that the only way out for him is to tender his resignation letter as he lacks the political acumen to lead the party but can best function as a labour leader.
"If as labour leader, you become very popular, Lerge Valessa was a great labour leader who led a riot in Poland and for that popularity, they voted him to become president of Poland and after few years, he crashed out. He now discovered that trade unionism and activism is completely different from politics.
"Oshiomhole must have been a very good trade union leader I have my observations about that but as a leader of a political party, he does not have the temperament, he does not have the character to lead the party, the best we can do for himself because we still love him, is to tender his resignation so that the party can have peace because the way the party is going, it is going out of control", he said.
He also accused the immediate past governor of the state of being the brain behind the fourteen members of the house of assembly not resuming sitting as a duly elected members of the house thereby denying the people of their rights.
He expressed optimism that the state governor, Obaseki would get the party's ticket whether through direct primaries or indirect primaries noting that it is the party in the state that decides what patterns it will use in conducting its primaries.
On the comment on the state deputy governor Philip Shaibu by the national chairman of the party, he said he was not fair on his comment that he made Philip whereas it was Philip's late father that made him stressing that the late Shaibu would turn in his grave over such comment on his son.
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