Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has been condemned by some founding members of his party, for his alleged role in the political crisis rocking Edo state.
Intervene now before it’s too late, the angry leaders also tells Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the party.
Oshiomhole is currently embattled with the governor of his state, Godwin Obaseki over the latter’s second term ambition.
The APC strongman has vowed to stop his former ally from being re-elected.
The party had during the week screened some aspirants ahead its governorship primary coming up later this month.
But 12 founding APC members said the action of their national chairman posed a danger to the ruling party and capable of murdering democracy in APC.
The chieftains, on Thursday in a statement, charged Tinubu, to intervene before Oshiomhole ‘murdered’ democracy.
Two weeks ago, the governor met Tinubu in his Bourdillon, Lagos residence where he sought his intervention on the lingering political crisis.
The members who signed the statement are Salihu Mustapha, Polycap Udah, Mohammed Bala Jibrin, Ray Morphy, Umar Kachalla Zubair, Sylvanus Amechi, Shaba Emangi and Emeka Enechi.
Others are Charles Idahosa, Mohammed Aboki Mahmud, Mackor Shaka Momodu and Yesufu Omonemi.
The accused Oshiomhole of wrongly granting waiver to Pastor Ize Osagie-Iyamu, to contest the party’s governorship primary against the constitution of the APC and in contravention of known democratic rules.
They also condemned him for foisting direct primary on the party in choosing its candidate for the September governorship election.
The chieftains said the party has suffered “incalculable losses since 2015” when it took power, due largely infighting among its leaders.
They stated that “It is against this background that we believe that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has a historic duty to come out and assure party members and indeed the Nigerian citizens that he still stands on the pillars of equity, fairness and justice.
Let us not be misunderstood. We are not in any way, suggesting that Asiwaju jumps into the fray in the many of the festering and lingering internal disagreements within the APC, requiring reconciliation.”
Tinubu should intervene in the crisis by calling the chairman to order, adding that his silence is not golden at this time.
According to them“We find it bewildering that just within a space of one month, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole had serially and violently violated the APC constitution that the silence of Asiwaju, the national leader is disconcerting.”
They added further that “We expect that by now he should be able to provide incontestably fair leadership to all party members, through which some specific actions of the APC national chairman Comrade Adams Oshiomhole can be moderated and made to conform with internal due processes as provided in the provisions of the APC constitution.
Comrade Oshiomhole has murdered democracy in the APC. As democrats, we believe that such actions are reprehensible and condemnable.
No leadership will condone such illegal actions that can only undermine the democratic ethos upon which APC stands.”
They warned the party’s leadership not to give room for the opposition to take over the state.
“We are inadvertently giving oxygen to the PDP, a failed political formation that we thought we had castrated in 2015,” the leaders said.
Meanwhile, Governor Obaseki said he has lost hope in the party to address his grievances against the National Chairman.
They can’t give me justice, the embattled governor said after his screening on Thursday.
