Akande laments effect of disagreement on party’s unity

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun’s political future is hanging in the balance.

TheAll Progressives Congress (APC) chairman should step down, some forces within the party are pushing, ahead of tomorrow’s meeting of the National Caucus Committee.

Odigie-Oyegun’s offence, sources said at the weekend, is his perceived failure to nip in the bud the National Assembly crisis that has shaken the party so much.

Most of the APC governors, some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) and party elders are unhappy that Odigie-Oyegun allowed the “crisis to fester”.

They alleged that his “slow pace” attitude emboldened Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara to “negotiate” with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members.

The delay in sending the list of APC nominees for principal offices in the Senate and the House of Representatives has fuelled the anger against Odigie-Oyegun.

Party leaders are divided on whether to retain Odigie-Oyegun or dump him.

A source, who briefed some reporters in Abuja on the situation in the party and the backlash of the crisis in the National Assembly, said there was apprehension in APC that if the chairman remained in office, it might collapse.

The source cited two instances where Odigie-Oyegun failed to be “decisive” on the choice of principal officers in the National Assembly.

The source alleged that the chairman was virtually forced to hold the mock elections that elected Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as the party’s choices for Senate President and House Speaker.

It also took the intervention of the APC governors before he could send the list of party nominees for some principal posts to Saraki and Dogara.

The source added: “There is much anger in the party against Oyegun. Many leaders have accused him of being indecisive or afraid to take the right decision.

“It is as if the man has no backbone or self-respect. When he should move, he sits down. When he should talk, he is mute. When he should make a decision, he sleeps and after finally making a decision, he takes days to implement something that could be done in minutes.

“After Saraki and Dogara rebelled by aligning with PDP National Assembly members, Oyegun remained strangely mum and unmoved to the harm being done to his and the party’s authority. ‘He took the rebuff too lightly and quickly as if he almost welcomed it.’

“It was only after APC governors intervened and applied heavy pressure that he wrote a letter to the Senate President and House Speaker naming the party’s choices for majority leader and the other posts.

“Even then, the letter was half-hearted, oddly brief and strangely passive in tone. It was as if he wrote it under compulsion because he had been boxed into a corner by the governors and not by conviction. Once again, Saraki and Dogara rebuffed him and once again Oyegun took the insult as if he asked for it.”

Also, a member of NEC said: “What happened in the National Assembly was a pure case of failure of leadership by the National Chairman.

“Certainly, his lapse is one of the major issues we will discuss at the National Caucus meeting in Abuja and later at our NEC session.

“We are all disappointed and feel betrayed by Oyegun because he refused to take action at the right time even when President Muhammadu Buhari said he would leave the party to resolve the logjam in the National Assembly.”

Analysing the APC and the National Assembly crisis in an article published on page 3 of this newspaper, former Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, warned of the danger ahead for the party if nothing urgent is done to remedy the crisis arising from the election of Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

He said: “Now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it is doubtful if the present institutions of party leadership can muster the required capacity to arrest the drift.

“It is my opinion that President Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC as a recking platform that may not be strong enough again to carry them to political victory in 2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to bring about the promised change before the party’s shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of governance in their hands.”

The former Osun State Governor added: “Before the party knew it, the process had been hijacked by polluted interests who saw the inordinate contests as a loop-hole for stifling APC governments’ efforts in its desire to fight corruption.

“Most Northern elites, the Nigerian oil subsidy barons and other business cartels who never liked Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance are quickly backing-up the rebellion against APC with strong support.

“While other position seekers are waiting in the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a large section of the South-West see the rebellion as a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba.”

Odigie-Oyegun himself has said that he cannot be stampeded out of office, saying efforts will be made to resolve all issues.

The party’s state chairmen also last week after a meeting in Abuja, expressed support for the party chairman.

In a communique signed by Chairman of the Kano chapter Alhaji Umar Haruna Mohammed, the party chiefs expressed concern over the crises rocking the party over the emergence of the leadership of the National Assembly.

“As state party chairmen and direct grassroots leaders, we are all concerned about the development and therefore re-affirm our belief and loyalty to our party, the APC, its supremacy as contained in the party’s constitution and the decision of its leadership.

“We are also not happy with recent development in the National Assembly, especially the lower chamber, and call on the party leadership to put in place proper machineries to checkmate further occurrences.

“We also call on the party leaders to use the long break with the view of resolving the matter so that the much needed change will be seen and enjoyed by everybody.”

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I dey laugh oooo!

A party that dubiously proclaims itself progressive, but is already in shambles because its members dared to oppose imposition.
Shouldn't it already dawn on the ACN faction of APC that they're not as popular or relevant as they would so badly want to believe?

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APC and noise is like bread and butter !

These men...

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Okay

At the rate which tinubu APC faction is going down they will soon discover oil

APC o.

When will you guys stop showing your unclothedness.

You fought in unity to change the clueless transformer as you claimed him to be and now your gluttony won't allow you to enjoy the benefits of your victory. SMH

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This oyegun of a man is weak jor.

He almost brought Edo state to a standstill when he was governor, Oyegun should be sacked, the man is a failure any where he goes.

nothing is wrong with oyegun but I think they need a master strategist than oyegun

I suggest Tinubu but wait oo ...make tanoid no pounce on me. Na mere suggestion

A party that revel itself as a model that champions internal democracy is being decimated by frivolities. I weep for my country. Oyegun or whatever should not be made a scapegoat where the root cause is simply GREED!

What befell Oyegun is not different from what's hampering Buhari from functioning effectively .

They are both hamstrung and can only do little as the structure that influenced their respective position is largely controlled by politicians...

APC guys were naive.They could have done better.I just hopw it won't affect Buhari's change

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Oyegun is weak and the party needs someone stronger. Sorry but yes he needs to go

I don't give a hoot over national politics for now, onye oku na-agba n'ulo ya anaghi achu oke.

Whatever APC does let them hold Anambra state sacred. It was unbievable the rumor that circulated on Saturday that I dismissed it off as bar room gossip. But after reading Obiano's speech this morning. I read inbetween the line and I realised that some misguided demons wanted to relocate BH prisoners to my state despite the fact that we don't have maximum security prison here.
Ochuu nwa okuku nwe oso nwa okuko nwe nwee nwee oso. The person that even gave thought to that should forever run, and forever be tired.
And any right thinking person that saw something right in that illconceived move, I wish you what you wish us.
I have no case against wrong thinking persons.

Oyegun what you are fighting in your party is bigger than you better make peace.

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I really pity this old man whose head is being used to crack coconut. He's been used to dislodge his s/south kinsman from Aso rock. He stretched the luck too far when he wanted to please tinubu at all cost in the case of NASS elections, but it's a pity he's about to be dropped just 'when food is ready".
I thought the real culprit behind the party's embarrassment is Tinubu who insisted (thru Oyegun) on certain people when the President had made it clear he was not ready to interfere with NASS election. Such is the case with a party with too many national leaders and NO NATIONAL LEADER.
Sorry, Uncle John.

what if Oyegun was just acting on an instruction?

Imminent collapse!
So much for 'internal democracy'.

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okay.

emmasege:
I really pity this old man whose head is being used to crack coconut. He's been used to dislodge his s/south kinsman from Aso rock. He stretched the luck too far when he wanted to please tinubu at all cost in the case of NASS elections, but it's a pity he's about to be dropped just 'when food is ready"
Sorry, Uncle John.

Oyegun knew his kinsman was an unmitigated disaster for the nation.

Ok

As stated in a similar thread, what befell Oyegun is not different from what's hampering Buhari from functioning effectively.

They are both hamstrung and could only do little as the structure that influenced their respective position is largely controlled by politicians ..

All these rubbish because of the rigid ambition of one man called Tinubu

APC! FAILURE!!!