Odigie-Oyegun: Why Oshiomhole ran into trouble

John Odigie Oyegun

Immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has explained why his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, ran into trouble in running the party’s affairs.

Reacting to a statement by chairmen of South South APC state chapters who blamed him for the crisis in the party, he said such claim was at best ludicrous and infantile, as it was an attempt to conjure justification for the party’s failings under Oshiomhole.

In a statement by his Public Affairs Assistant, Chief Ray Morphy, the former APC Chairman traced Oshiomhole’s weaknesses to his lack of temperament required to successfully run a political party.

Arguing that Oshiomhole lacked capacity to manage the different interests and tendencies that constitute a political party, he stressed that it was trite knowledge that he (Oshiomhole) engages his mouth before engaging his mind and consequently offending party members.

Odigie Oyegun supported Deputy National Chairman Lawali Shuabu who had accused Oshiomhole of running the party without recourse to the decisions of the National Working Committee (NWC).

“How would you not have crisis in states with the confusion that Oshiomhole created when he gave states freedom to choose their methods of selecting candidates for elections. “Much of the crisis in states arose from sheer incapacity on the part of Oshiomhole, whose incapacity became booby straps.

“Many party men were astonished at the unfairness and injustice meted to them during the primaries. Only a bad carpenter quarrels with his tools,” Odigie Oyegun stated. “Indeed Oshiomhole is degrading and de marketing the party, rather than seek to bring more people on board, he is chasing people away from the party with his motor park style of engagement,” Odigie Oyegun stated.

(Nigerian Guardian News)