Tinubu Tells APC National Chairman, Odigie-Oyegun To Resign

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has asked the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-, to resign immediately.

The former Lagos State governor accused Oyegun of betraying the party in the conduct of the primary election for the party’s candidate in the Ondo governorship election.

Tinubu’s media office in a statement on Sunday accused Oyegun of sabotaging the will of democracy in Ondo State by overriding the decision of the appeal panel that asked for a fresh governorship primary following investigations that showed that the delegates’ list used had been tampered with.

Michael Olusegun Abraham, an aspirant for the governorship ticket of the APC in Ondo State, had in a statement at the weekend expressed disappointment at Oyegun over the emergence of a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, as candidate.

Tinubu in his statement said: “The APC, a party born of the quest for democratic good governance, is under critical threat by those who managed to be in the party but never of it. From the party’s inception, the principles of democratic fairness and justice were to guide APC internal deliberations. Party founders realized that only by intramural fair dealing could the party remain faithful to the progressive ideals that we presented to the Nigerian electorate as our governing creed. If the party could not justly govern itself, it would find it difficult to establish and maintain just government throughout the nation.